Why I Sit Through Movie Credits

Ed Sharrow
Nov 6 · 3 min read
Photo by Jake Hills on Unsplash

I like to sit for all of the credits at the end of the film. When I first moved to Los Angeles in 1997, it was fairly common for a large portion of the audience to sit through the credits at the end of a movie. At first, I didn’t adopt this practice, unless my friends wanted to stay. I always thought “I don’t know any of these people. Why would I stay?”

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Ed Sharrow

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Ed Sharrow is an author, a philosopher, and a meditation instructor. He graduated from Boston University with a degree in print journalism.

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