do the thing

So when you do go, and I hope you do, go with your flaws, your doubts, your boxes still unpacked. Go messy. Go late. Go unprepared. Go with nothing but the whisper that you were meant for air.

Because if there’s anything waiting on the other side, it’s not perfection. It’s breath. It’s possibility. It’s a room with light. And maybe, if you’re lucky,... See more

Like anything, it’s all in repetition. You go again and again, and the fear loses its grip on you.

They want me to get a range of intermediate shots, close-ups and reverse angles, all for safety’s sake. But I have always filmed only what I need for the screen, and nothing else. When you do open heart surgery, you don’t go for the appendix or toenails, you go straight for the beating heart.

To have a story, characters have to be placed into situations where they have to make choices, and those choices have to have consequences for both the character and the story. In other words: things have to happen.

The more you release, the easier it becomes.

The more you release, the closer to your truth you get.

The more you release, the more you see who you really are.

The more you let your guts out, the more you shine a light for others to do the same.

There are a lot of things I want to do. I want to create and build and make and write.

And then, of course, there are other things that I just have to do, like bookkeeping and responding to emails.

Sometimes, it all gets to be too much. There are too many things to do! I need to figure out where to start! I get paralyzed by the sheer enormity of it... See more