Everything I write has to be my own idea or at least let in by my own muse. It all comes from my gut and then my brain because my brain is too good-girl and competitivebut less than it used to be. Still, I need my gut to write alongside of my brain.
I hope that readers and I share in common love of work that speaks to emotions or concepts they're familiar with or want to experience or can apprecitate if they like to think or imagine.
Just keep writing rules, breaking them, and writing them again.
I just wanted to do something that I would be proud of and that my friends would enjoy as well as people with the same reading sensibilities and imaginations.
In acting class they don't want us to think and are always surprised that I can interpret text. I understand their point, they want reactivity, but I still like having my mind active while I'm doing the 'what are they doing, what do I feel about it' exercises. It's a challenge for me because as a writer I need to think, dissect, analyze, make good decisions, and as an actor I have to pretty much just react- it's a weird balance, definitely a challenge and one I have to always keep working on to get right.
Iron sharpens iron. Whenever you're coming up in an entertainment aspect, it's all pretty simpleI think- work hard, try to do the best work you can and be a nice person, as country as that sounds. It's good business, good practice, good karma, and in my opinion, just a good way to be.
It's not news that I love Sofia Coppola but I recently saw her short film "Lick the Star" and not only did my affection for her increase but she inspired me to want to do something thatI swore I didn't have it in me to do but it made me want to make short films. I need to figure out the details to get that moving- the cameras and how to score it and how you get the credits in at the end. Also- how great is it that she uses bands like Free Kitten, the Amps, the Land of the Loops, who half the people making movies now probably have never heard of and they're so perfect for the atmospheric soundtrack of a scene