When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity.
I know a lot of people who are very good at their craft who have learned - people behind the camera - who really have a lot to offer because they know what they're doing, they know what to do, they've made their mistakes.
When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.