Watching good movies

I saw two really good and really different movies tonight. "No Country for Old Men" and "Dan in Real Life". And as I'm sitting there watching, I start to get inspired. And somewhere in the back of my head, I'm saying to myself "you can do this stuff. You can write and create movies like this". I don't know why I think that. Because when I sit down to write, I can't figure out the story. Maybe I get an idea for a story, but I can never decide on all the pieces and then assemble them. So why do I have this confidence? Yea, maybe its that same naive notion a lot of people get when they watch actors. A great actor makes it look easy and then because it looked so easy we say "I could do that", when in reality we are so far from being able to do whatever they just did that if we lived three lifetimes we might never learn to act. Not to say you can't work really hard at something and become pretty good or very good. But I think some people are simply born to be great at something. That doesn't mean they live up to the potential, and oftentimes they never apply themselves. Either they endured some huge tragedy and nothing means anything. Or they're just plain lazy and constantly think they're going to do something great because its all so simple to them. Because they're a genius. But they never actually DO anything. So right now I'm wondering, are you a genius, a bum, or an idiot? Perhaps its possible to be all three. And perhaps, well no more perhapses. My point is made, or its not. Either way I'm done talking.