When the goal is simply to be as faithful as possible to the material—as if a movie were a marriage, and a rights contract the vow—the best result is a skillful abridgment, one that hits all the important marks without losing anything egregious.

Turn out at the third driveway.

We agree on almost nothing, everything is a battle / Every secret from him is kept, his rep is being a tattle

that + -ness → thatness