Something I've been chewing on all day while working on a project. I am never going to get everyone in the world to like something I do, but if I like it, it's worth it. I always want to keep learning and growing, and the minute I stop being teachable I'm going to be forever standing in the same place, but I also care more about doing something I'm happy with than if anyone EVER gets, appreciates, or remembers it. I wish I could somehow telegraph this to my sixteen year old self. It would've saved me a lot of grief. It sucks that we only get that kind of self-realization with age.
"For years people would just fucking tell me, 'You're wrong, you're bad, you failed at self expression.' You know what a fuckin' crock of shit that is? You know how fuckin' rigged that is, where someone can literally tell you that you as an artist failed at self expression? You find another director.. I've never met another director in my life who'd be like, 'Dude, you failed at self expression.' There may be people being like, 'I didn't like your movie or it just didn't speak to me' but somebody being like 'it's broken, it's failed'.. it's fucking ridiculous. For years I would sit there like I'm bad, why can't I be better for them... Until one day you get old enough and you're like 'Wait a second, how the fuck can somebody tell me that my self expression is wrong?' ..At the end of the day, art is art. You show a hundred people something, you're going to have a different different fucking reactions. It's not going to be uniform. Consensus don't make it art."
-Kevin Smith
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