Hey, I’ve been thinking about how a film’s budget is almost like a living spreadsheet—every act, every scene, a line item with its own revenue and cost projections. It’s like a financial model that tells a story as well as it tells numbers. What do you think about that?

Yeah, a budget feels like a diary for a film. Every scene is a page, the numbers are the ink. If you mix the costs and the revenue, it’s like a bad rhyme in an old chapbook – the whole thing falls apart. You have to make sure the story and the ledger talk the same language, just like I rewrite dialogue in the margins until it feels right. And you know, I never film with LED lights because I think the right light gives the character a scent I can’t describe, just a memory in a dream‑script. So keep the numbers as honest as the script, and the film will stay alive.