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“If you’re a gadget person, right, or a gear person, and there’s a lot of kids who are gear people—they like toys and mechanical things you can manipulate with your hands, stuff with knobs and buttons on them—then there’s a tactile component to the equipment, which is just very pleasing to a kid. When you make a film, even when you’re 12, and you’re making Super 8 movies, you have cameras, and then you have to edit the film. It’s like the Orson Welles quote where he says: A movie set is the greatest train set in the world.’ There’s a lot of truth to that even to this day,” he told RogerEbert.com.
Witcher said his love of filmmaking deepened as he matured. “As I got older and got on with it, it remained tremendously exciting. Because the thing that doesn’t leave you as you get older is how film encompasses so many different disciplines and so many different avenues of creative expression.
“There’s the story; there’s writing; there’s acting; there’s the design, and there’s the lighting, and the photography and composition. And then there’s music and sound. It’s sort of like the modern version of opera in a way, where over 120 years ago, opera was the thing that brought all of these artistic disciplines under one roof to create a thing. Cinema eventually supplanted that. Right. And so what became exciting about it was the more I got into everything else, the more I saw how it all fed into trying to create a movie. It’s never stale,” he added.
