Here's some unsolicited filmmaking advice: understand the whole system.

Try every job. If you're an editor, direct some actors and record some sound. Even if you're a cinematographer, colour grade your shots and spend time in the art department. Even if you're a producer, cook and make coffee for the cast and crew.

When you look beyond your cog in the very complex filmmaking machine, you'll be able to tune in to your comrades and appreciate how your small efforts have big effects on the cinema screen.

Actually, machine is a poor analogy for filmmaking. Unlike this automated carillon that I snapped in the Belfry of Bruges, the most important parts of a movie are people. Messy, creative, egoistic, brilliant things that you have to understand just as well.

Like making a Belgian waffle, how the flavours of butter, syrup, cream and chocolate combine into--... now I'm just waffling.