Such is the root of his near-mystical prestige as a creator of action films: a bright, instinctive sense of when and where to cut from the telling detail to the wider view, and back again.
The Australians, playing in bright sunshine, sense the opportunity to dictate from three; the English, conscious of a swinging ball in dank conditions, have often been more concerned with self-preservation.
Those of us wielding flashy scalpels under bright lights sense a heroic thread in our work when, in fact, it resides in the quiet toil of our nation's primary-care doctors, who are the real heroes.
But the painter she most frequently speaks of is Mark Rothko, and there is, both in her flower colours and in the expanses of the backgrounds, dark or bright, a sense of light under the surface, which changes the surface as the shades shift imperceptibly in a Rothko.
Sharing photos of her childhood as Richard, through her failed marriage and struggles with fatherhood, she threads the emotional core of her story with the bright, cutting sense of humor she has established now 25 years after coming out.
Schmidt's heart-breakingly meagre achievements, recorded in his office in-house newsletter, are just like Reese Witherspoon's array of talents in the school yearbook - only very much without her bright-eyed sense that life is just beginning.
Steven Ercolino, who was shot to death by a former co-worker near the Empire State Building, was remembered for his sharp fashion sense, bright smile and big heart.
"Still Crazy After All These Years" – the second encore – is a too-bright number whose sense of "fun" is best expressed in inverted commas; it includes a honking sax solo.
How clear the night sky was, the stars enchantingly bright, and I sensed, as my feet crunched on the ground, that I had fetched up in a rather special place.
This week's QT quintet was bright in the senses of both intelligence and excitement: as one of the last remaining big beasts of politics, Clarke (like his former colleague, Michael Heseltine) brings crackle and theatricality to any panel and Chakravarty and Carswell, the newest to the format, were allowed proper space to speak by Dimbleby's characteristically tight but laconic ring-mastering.
