Raw Meat is a quoteblog by Aaron Swartz.

Don’t call me at work again
No, no, the boss still hates me
I’m just tired and I don’t love you anymore
And there’s a restaurant we should check out
Where the other nightmare people like to go
I mean nice people — baby wait, I didn’t mean to say nightmare

Every time you show the audience something that is “real,” they think one of two things: (1) “oh, dash it all, that’s fake” or (2) “oh my God, that’s real!” Each one of these takes the audience away from the story you’re telling, and neither one is better than the other. “Oh, he’s not really copulating with her” or “oh my God, he’s really copulating with her!” Both lose the audience. If we suggest the idea, we can shoot it better than if we show it.

I’ve seen directors do as many as sixty takes of a shot. Now, any director who’s watched dailies knows that after the third or fourth take he can’t remember the first; and on the set, when shooting the tenth take, you can’t remember the purpose of the scene. And after shooting the twelfth, you can’t remember why you were born. Why[?] Because they don’t know what they want to take a picture of. And they’re frightened. If you don’t know what you want, how do you know when you’re done? If you know what you want, shoot it and sit down.