4. Behind the Curtain: Scripting in Creative Suite
Trust that little voice in your head that says, “Wouldn’t it be interesting if?” And then do it.
—Photographer Duane Michals
Do you remember the scene in The Wizard of Oz in which Toto pulls back the curtain to reveal the man/wizard operating levers behind it? As a kid, what caught my attention wasn’t the revelation or the treachery of the man; it was those levers. They were the tickets to doing wonderful wizardish things. If only I knew how to move those levers, I could escape all the indignities of childhood, I thought. Pull this one, push that one, and the world would be my marionette—a seductive idea for a kid. And to tell you the truth, I didn’t even care about how the levers were operated. ...
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