Growing up, I always wanted to be a singer, and Ive done that.
In recovering from our creative blocks, it is necessary to go gently and slowly. . . These are baby steps. Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.
The Artist's Way is a spiritual journey, a pilrimage home to the self.
Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.
As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.
Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin to savor them. Even the most rushed and pell-mell life begins to take on the patina of being cherished.
Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention. . . the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
But, there was a time when we all had a great thing going but one person just became very uncomfortable with it and he had to try to change it around to suit him more and then it suited no one else but him.
You have to surround yourself with people who live, breathe and eat something that you're trying to do, and then it becomes a motivating thing for them to want to support and get behind what you're doing - it's all good then.
People think that I'm tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.
What I love about IMAX is with its extraordinary resolution and color reproduction it's a very rich image with incredible detail. It lends itself wonderfully to huge shots with much in the frame. Thousands of extras and all the rest.