That little window like 2004 through like 2010 was probably the most, like most inspiring time of my creative life, for sure.
I am always talking to students and telling them how you have to practice every day because you can't wait for someone to hire you. You need something you do for yourself, something that feeds your creative life.
When it comes to your creative life and what it's going to take, you will do a disservice to everybody if you just dabble.
I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.
The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad pulls - women's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.
I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.
The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.
Creative life should be more than preaching to the converted, more than going for a core audience of 100,000 people. It should be taking risks, challenging the readership and having enough faith in one's own talent and craft to take readers on that ride.
I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.
My hope is that one day I'll be able to work and have a quieter life, but still a creative life.
