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The writer/director Kenneth Lonergan (You Can Count On Me, Margaret, Manchester By The Sea) has said that when making a film, he’s thrilled if he gets 80-90% of what he originally envisioned in his head. As a director (film and theatre included), you must do everything you can to create the conditions for an “A”Continue reading “B+”

“A dream is just a goal without a deadline.” -Robert Herjavec If you really want to achieve that goal, start thinking like a producer. Turn the goal into a project. Ask yourself questions like…How much will it cost? What’s the overall timeline? What are the key milestones? Who do I need to help me achieveContinue reading “Produce The Dream”

They don’t know how many camera tests you did before shooting. How many hundreds of drafts you wrote before you turned in the novel. How long you looked until you found the exact, right, period wallpaper. How hard you worked to get the costumes perfectly tea-stained and distressed. How you obsessed every night to getContinue reading “They’ll Feel It”

Maybe you weren’t the first choice for the project. Or the second. Or the third. None of that matters. That’s just ego. Get over it. Assuming you love the project and the people behind it, all that matters is you’re a part of it now. You get to do meaningful work. Be grateful for theContinue reading “Not The First Choice”

The firefighter rushes in to danger and the burning building while everyone else rushes out. The athlete rushes in to discipline, pain and suffering while everyone else rushes out. The artist rushes in to vulnerability and emotional rawness while everyone else rushes out. If you wanna do something great, it’s gonna cost. You need toContinue reading “Rush In”

“I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.” – Cicero “The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.” – Richard Rohr Let others judge. You stay busy creating. And iterating and learning and growing. That way, all your time is spent making things better. And making better things.

If content is king (as Bill Gates famously declared in this 1996 essay), then context is the ace. Together you got blackjack. One without the other though?…Busted. P.S. – Always double down on eleven.

Don’t you ever wonderMaybe if things had been slightly differentYou could be somebody else?Don’t you wonder maybeIf you took a left turnInstead of taking a rightYou could be somebody different? Don’t you ever wonderCould I have beenDon’t you ever wonder?Anyone, anyoneDon’t you ever wonder?Don’t you ever wonder?Anyone, anyone, anyone Could I have been a parkingContinue reading “Could I Have Been?”

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe Stop daydreaming about what you’ll do when you finally get what you want. Start doing with what you have right now.

“She who is centered in the Tao can go where she wishes, without danger. She perceives the universal harmony, even amid great pain, because she has found peace in her heart.” – Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tzu (Translation by Stephen Mitchell) “We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole thatContinue reading “Centered”