When you sit at your typewriter writing books, it is all in your imagination, there isn’t even that illusion. There you are, surrounded by sets with wallpaper and furniture and lights that are all real - but they are all illusion, too. There is something very concrete about working on a movie. It has been a healthy contrast to the lonely fantasy life of writing. Because filmmaking is such a collective effort, you also learn a lot about compromise. You are obligated to cajole, convince, and persuade people rather than order them. I came out of medicine with very autocratic attitudes, ‘Do this’ or ‘Do that,’ and having it happen. “Working in films has been good for me personally. Michael Crichton talks about directing in this excerpt from “A Cure from Box-Office Atrophy from a physician who likes to play doctor” by Digby Diehl in Signature magazine from 1978.
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