“The real out-takes which I hope we get to see sometime are… I always let the takes run after the scene is over. Anson with that telephone, he did things that were INSANE and wonderful and wild. There’s a lot of stuff on the editor’s floor that would make a really good gag reel.” - Director Jonathan Frakes
the moment i first understood the myth of meritocracy i think was when i read the “Eragon” books as a teenager, and it said on the back that the author had started writing them at 15 and it became a bestseller. this stressed me out so much, I also wanted that kind of success in writing at such a young age & kept thinking I should also be able to do it, that I must be doing something wrong – and then YEARS later i found out his parents had a publishing company and financed him touring through the whole U.S before the books became successful
