I like to hold a book. When someone sends me a script, I ask for a hard copy or print one out.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.