Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
It's very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn't network well. But great networking skills without great art won't change art history.
For the art-historically informed, no art has truly shocked since November 19, 1971, when Chris Burden had himself shot in the arm by a friend, at F-Space in Santa Ana, California. Sliced cows and surgically altering one's own face is aftershock art.
I'm an artist because that's what I was best at as a kid. It was fun. . . I continue to be an artist. . . for the freedom that an art career can bring. I don't need an alarm clock and I am my own boss.
Luck plays no role in art world success. It's your own responsibility to create your success, which is a result of making thousands of constant decisions - focused, professional tenacity - day after day of keeping commitments to yourself and to those you make promises to. If you fail, it's all your fault. If you succeed, you deserve all the credit.
The press needs stories constantly. No need to bleed, just feed. Branding will keep you standing. . . Get press not stress.
Out of routine comes inspiration.
Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.
Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world.
The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.
Love is the energy of life.