Did anyone ever tell you weren't good enough?
Of course. The low vibrational energy of cruelty will likely one day cross paths with us all, and we get to observe their destructive words as a doorway to compassion. Only miserable people go about causing others misery. How sad for them.
How can you stay focused on your goal?
Know the why. Why is this your goal? When that Why gets you so fired up night and day, when it becomes what you can't stop thinking about and feeling passionately, focus is unavoidable.
Have you ever had a breakdown because of your Job?
I have been depressed by a religious person at my workplace. I hated to go into the room where we worked together because I knew he would be passive aggressively displeased by my presence, all the while portraying himself as a savior.
So not a breakdown, but a challenging disheartening chapter.
Were it to happen now, however, I would not have let myself suffer him one bit. I would perceive him as doing the best he could and I would remain in a forgiving mindset. Also I would be focused on radiating my own fiercely happy heart and not pay any attention to his vendetta.
Talent is a blessing or a curse?
An absolute blessing when seized with appreciation and enjoyed as a life path.
What would you like to improve about yourself as an actor/director/screenplayer?
I have been told I am industrious. But I don't think I'm industrious enough. What I would like to improve is my expediency of output. To never compromise on quality, to ceaselessly challenge myself to see deeper, to try things differently and to push myself harder to create the largest body of work I possibly can.
What's the worst critic you have received?
All constructive criticism is helpful, particularly when coming from those who are in the arena, those who have gone through the wars of experience and have something of value to offer.
My worst moment was enduring one gentleman who has never edited, as he explained to me about editing.
I sat there, as a professional editor at that particular time with 20 years experience, breathing quietly, as he explained 101 like it was an epiphanous revelation. Sigh.
If you weren't an actor/director/screenplayer what would you like to be?
A pilot for a commercial airline. Or a violinist in an orchestra. Perhaps a line cook at a local bistro. But who am I kidding. I'd always come back to film and music making.
If Cinema was a color what would it be?
Silver like the Moon and Golden like the Sun
A day without a movie is...
Without storytelling, where we learn and play and grow and flow through our chapters, so much joy would be lost. I have found a stillness of mind in meditation, where the quiet of 'No Thought' is relaxing. But while still alive in this form, a balance of both the outward movement (enjoying a movie, exploring, expanding, learning, playing) and the inward movement (contemplation, introspection, reflection, and stillness) is my life's rhythm.