You can't write something to please someone.
When I hire actors I believe in their abilities.
I won't rewrite on set, but I'll just trim the fat.
When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.
Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves.
In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.