I think sometimes about how after a run of success, there comes a magical moment where a filmmaker will be gifted a broad array of choices to do something really ambitious and special.
And I think about Ti West, pushing in his chips on the umpteenth Scrooge movie, casting a disgraced domestic abuser known for being unreliable on set as the lead, and basing the whole thing around "What if the hateful rich man was actually right though?"