Reading from “BatB” at the NY Film Society for Kids at Lincoln Center’s Beale Theater (13.03.2017)
You only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.
I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too “done” and too generic. You see people as they go through their career and they just become more and more like everyone else. They start out with something individual about them but it gets lost.
It’s a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.
I’ve probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don’t want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.