I'm watching a screenwriting lecture by Robert Eggers and at one point he goes "my number one tip is don't write a goat into your movie, you can't train a goat, the goat was a fucking nightmare"

Apparently the goat seriously injured the actor who played the father, cracked a couple of his ribs iirc

Same goat also appears in It Comes At Night and he was a problem there too. Personally I would simply stop hiring that particular goat but I'm different

Anyway the most interesting part here is that he implies that a big part his process is just doing something accidentally and then leaning into it when someone else he's working with points it out

This is how The VVitch became a feminist movie, and how The Lighthouse turned into a retelling of proteus and prometheus

literally "whoops all allegory"