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Todd Haynes
“Filmmaking is about letting expectations go at every step of the way. Hitchcock claimed to have constructed all of his films in storyboards, but his best movies work because he used steps later in the filmmaking process—shooting, editing, scoring—to build on his original idea. In filmmaking, you can’t keep looking back at how you envisioned a story on the page. I’ve only recently undertaken adaptations from novels, from Mildred Pierce to Carol and now Wonderstruck, and I don’t put a lot of energy into navigating readers’ prior expectations. Because, ultimately, the real question is, Why is this a movie at…