Minutes of a Monday #34
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Brain Food > Who are you?
"I think the big tip would be to learn your craft as best as you possibly can. To learn what you do well and what moves you. When you read your stuff, your own stuff, be honest with how bad it is. And look at it and find the places where it does come alive, even if just for a second, even if it's just a line - because that, right there, is the key to unlocking what is going to make you successful.
If you want to be a writer, stop being a personal assistant. Like, you can't learn to be a writer if you're spending 15 hours a day taking care of somebody. You need to go live somewhere where you have a really low overhead and dedicate yourself for years learning how to do this. Instead of hoping 'well, if I service the right executive, for the right amount of years, maybe they'll let me, you know, get into a writers room or something like that.’ The best thing you could walk in with is good work.
And the way you get good work is by learning your craft and confronting who you are as a creator. What do you do well? What is your voice? So, like, yes you admire these people, but you can’t be them and so don’t try to be them - the world already has them. Who are you?"
True Detective creator, Nic Pizzolatto
Soul Food
“If you’re good at something, never do it for free.”
LOL
Stand-up like you’ve never seen before:
Appendix
“I have a reputation for being very lucky with the weather and it’s completely untrue. I’m very unlucky with the weather. But I made a decision early on that whatever the weather, I will shoot, until it’s not safe. We just shoot, if it’s pouring rain or if the sun’s come out and beautiful things can come from that.”
AOB
Thank you for reading last week’s article on why hurling was my first acting teacher - if you missed it you can grab it here.