“Discipline and commitment are essential to being a writer. You can’t be a writer unless you’re disciplined and you’re committed to the cause, which is like, write the script, write the book, write the sonnet, write the symphony. If...
“Create that community around you. And it doesn’t have to be someone who’s physically there. You can find critique partners and meet over Zoom. I think it’s so important to find that, that community and to help each other and to be good artist...
“The words that I was saying to myself, whenever I doubted, I would say, ‘Why not me?’ You go into these stores and you see all these New York Times bestsellers and you think, ‘Oh, I can never do that.’ And then I started saying,...
“Well, I’ve learned to absorb every kind of constructive criticism. I used to be quite resistant to it, but, I’ve learned to absorb constructive criticism and it’s a very important skill in life, I find. You know, don’t just throw...
“The beauty of acting is that you have to be there in that moment. And when you’re in that moment, it’s an amazing thing because we’re not in the moment in real life, but when you are on that set, on that stage, and that director says “Action,”...
