Filmmaker's Notebook: Cooking Up Directing Skills.

Hey Reader, This past year, I got back into cooking. In the beginnning, I was playing it safe—sticking to recipes and measuring out ingredients like I was taking a high school chemistry test. After a while, I started getting comfortable. I’d swap out spices, tweak the process, and before I knew it, I wasn’t just following instructions—I was cooking meals that felt like mine. Directing a film? It’s a lot like that. You start with the fundamentals, learn the basics, and eventually, you get...