Hume Cronyn on Alfred Hitchcock:
We were working on a problem with a scene. There were a lot of things to consider - lighting, staging, pacing, and the like. We were up very late struggling to find the right way to do it. Finally, when we seemed close to the solution, Hitchcock...started telling jokes, silly, junior high-type stuff, and got us all lost again. Later, I asked him why, when we were so close to solving the problem, did he choose that moment to get us off track by joking around? He paused, and then said something I'll never forget. He said, "You were pushing. It never comes from pushing."
It never comes from pushing...
God made a man. He put him to work in the garden, to plow, to prune, to harvest, to name. All was good. Very good. Except one thing: the man was alone. It was not good for him to be alone. It was, in fact, the first deepest problem in the universe, a personal crisis that marred the whole of creation.
How do you solve a problem like that? "The Lord caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh. then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man."
The answer to the man's deepest need and longing came from with the man, but it was not available to the man through his own efforts. God had to draw it out of him while he slept. he had to cease. he had to rest.
It never comes from pushing.
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