My first camera was a Kodak with no film. A kid in Niger holding something he couldn't use. Never took a single picture. Today I film on four continents. Where you're born is the 20%. What you do next is the 80%.
Cinematic brand films lose to phone clips every day.
The scroll moves too fast to reward polish.
A viewer decides in under a second.
Production budget can't outrun a weak first frame.
For years I told myself staying quiet was humility. Let the work speak, don't be "that guy."
Meanwhile clients couldn't find me. Opportunities went to louder, less talented people.
I was hoarding my own work and calling it modesty.
What are you keeping invisible?
If you failed, that means you moved.
That already puts you ahead of everyone who’s still waiting for the “perfect time.”
What’s a failure you’re actually proud of?
Making Juneteenth a U.S. holiday scratches the surface towards progress. Ending police brutality, job discrimination, poverty, environmental racism, mass incarceration, education inequality are among next immediate steps for real change.
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