GOOD CASTING

It is commonly held by Hollywood movie executives that there are only two criteria for casting a part - would you want to have sex with this person or would you want to be this person? As a result we wind up watching actors that movie executives would like to have sex with or would like to be. And then they wonder why so many movies fail at the box office.

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SHOW BUSINESS RESTAURANTS

The dining room of a Beverly Hills show business restaurant is suffused with a tacit understanding that everyone in the restaurant is in show business. The patrons, the proud waiters, and the eager hosts, all must be in show business, we imagine. The only ones who get the joke and can hardly keep from laughing at it are the busboys. They have no show business aspirations for the most part so their presence is devoid of any pretense, they are free to see things as they are, do their work and go home and put real food on real tables. One cannot help but envy the busboys.

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NATURAL TALENT

There are those actors whose heads are definitively, permanently, irreversibly, severed from their bodies, and for them the mind/body connection will happen when pigs begin to fly. So what, I say, art isn’t about success, it’s about an all out assault on the impossible - on a personal level, to me that’s far more moving than any degree of natural talent.

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PERMANENT SOLUTIONS

When you get to the point where self sabotage actually feels worse than the perceived pain of doing your creative work, then, if it is not too late, you just may overcome your resistance and do what you where put here to do as you deceive yourself that you’re over the hump, that self sabotage is gone for good, never to return.

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RESPONSIBILITY

Whenever life feels empty, meaningless, and drab, there should be one question and one question only- what am I creating now? If you have been feeling this way, usually the answer is “I’m too busy to create anything right now...” or my personal favorite “I’m waiting for my headshots.” Don’t ever leave yourself without something to work on.

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