Make to Know

Through the process of “making leadership,” I came to know what I wanted to do, both with the department and with this new aspect of my career.

“The antecedent stages to Satori: quest, search, ripening and explosion. The

“I am always unclear when people say they love writing but don’t like editing. To me they are the same.

she enters a world of uncertainty from a place of moral ambiguity which

Watson compares her process in both life and work with dadaist experiments “where you take an image, cut it up, throw it on the floor and then make something of the chaos that has landed. There’s a system to it, but it allows for confusion and failure and all this other stuff to happen.” She and I grapple together to understand the nature of what t

Having found an entry into this world of uncertainty, what then? What does the writer build within that space that moves the project forward?

simply began to write about a character,” Stern tells me. “I’m always observing people, reading people, thinking about people, and trying to understand.

and you’re trying to really look for the ‘about-ness’…. And if you try too hard, then you will only write ‘the about.’ You won’t discover anything.”

a film needs “a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order.”