If you keep your cool, you'll get everything.
I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.
In those simpler days, you could just take pictures of movie stars and show them the way they were, as normal human beings. And if I felt part of any movement at the time, it was just to do that - to be journalistic and photograph what is, rather than what is made up.
Most photographers work best alone, myself included.
A picture should be looked at - not talked about.
You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.