Journaling the victories and stumbles of creating stories.
Marketing guru Seth Godin talks about this in his book Linchpin. Shipping really means getting your work out there. As an artist, it can be nerve-racking to think about putting work out because we fear the response. That hasn't gone away for me but I know it's a part of the process. So tomorrow at …
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No matter how turbulent the ocean is at its surface, if you go deep there's a peaceful stillness there that isn't disturbed. That's what meditation is to me.
You can't just sit around and think you can get lucky
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/teslas-elon-musk-whats-changed-in-a-decade/ I watched Elon Musk on 60 Minutes last night, he was interesting. What blew me away from watching it and seeing his first 60 Minutes appearance is his vision. It was not only clear but it hadn't changed. Tesla Motors goal is to accelerate the growth of electric cars. It wasn't to make billions …
Kevin Hart stepped down as host of the Oscars after anti-gay tweets resurfaced. He's since apologized. I don't believe Kevin is homophobic now but in our society, we tend to look at past behavior through present-day eyes. Kevin is now a crossover star and as the biggest comedian in America right now you are held …
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Choices can overwhelm us, think about it. You can go through the billions of Netflix or Amazon Prime videos and complain there’s nothing to watch. I have 6,000 films in my queue right now. There’s a reason a lot of successful CEOs wear the same thing because they know even the small decisions eat up …
A lot of filmmakers want to make a feature film but most fall short. For me I wanted my first feature to be great, I wanted it to be like Reservoir Dogs. Over the past few months, I've learned that just making a film is an accomplishment itself. You want your film to be good …
Kobe Bryant and Larry Holmes have a lot of similarities, both of them are great athletes that suffered from the same thing, being a copy of an original. Larry Holmes defended his title 20 times! Kobe won five N.B.A. titles and two finals MVPs. But the trouble is that they came after arguably the two most …
Pemon Rumi, a Chicago based producer was being interviewed by an instructor at Purdue, he was saying your film will be around longer than you. It’s something I never really thought about. After I’m dead and gone, people will be able to see what I’ve done and judge it without knowing anything else about me. …
Thursday nights mean one thing, dollar tacos at the Mexican restaurant, but back in the 80s, it was The Cosby Show. That show was my favorite back in the day, I wanted to be Theo and have a Gordon Gartrell. It was the only show that had an all-black cast that portrayed an upper-middle-class family, …
