It s wonderful. It s inborn, ingrained in him. He sets up a camera. He knows what he wants. He knows how to make a scene work.
Every scene has to have something to embellish the story, to add . . .
You do a scene, then you turn the page. The scene you just did has to add fuel to the fire for the next scene. He knows how to do that. Eli Wallach with Robert De Niro in Night and the City. Well, the first one he did as a favor to a friend of his, Barry Primus.