Diane’s Dementia & The Parents Not Being Forgotten.
The Davenport Sisters Were As Real As They Could Come. Things To Note | Question(s) Left Unanswered. Be open to feedback, but also have the confidence in your own vision to tell a particular story as a reflection of your distinctive voice. There’s no one right way to tell a story. Don’t blindly incorporate notes because of who they come from. Trust your voice and have confidence in telling a story the way you think it needs to be told. Accept that your biggest failures are experiences you simply have to go through and come out the other side of. Find a way to make conflict a productive experience by channeling your shared goals with an actor, director, financier, et al. Keep the lines of communication open, even when time doesn’t necessarily permit. Communication, especially on set, is paramount. You have to get out on the tightrope, or you are never going to grow. By stretching, you have to allow yourself to fail. Be patient: it takes storytellers time to find their voice and to find their confidence in what they know they do well. Embrace the fact that you don’t know it all, but that you will discover things along the way. Just because you like certain movies, that doesn’t mean you are the right person to tell that story. As a writer, failure is an everyday experience. You can be drawn to a story and not know the best way to tell it. The beauty of storytelling is that every great story has its own DNA your job is to find that. Find a community of professionals and peers to carry you through your struggles so that you can turn them into insights. Allow your love of storytelling to override your ego and your fear or failure. The brilliance of failure is that you inherit an arsenal of tools. It’s important to stand by the work you believe in. 
A commercial failure doesn’t necessarily have to affect your creative decisions moving forward. Don’t work with someone whose only alignment with the project is their financial investment. You may have to mitigate expectations with first-time financiers. When it comes to partners and investors, find people who will share in your vision and have similar expectations for the project. At the end of the day, if everything else around it is a disappointment, you are still left with having created something original, and the world finds its way to it. Become comfortable with the idea that the original goal is to create art. Understand that the reality of the film industry is that it is a place where art and commerce meet.
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