high-wire act
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With this film I have made more money than any of my other films. It was a high-wire act.
The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.
Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?
The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me.