Amber Tamblyn

You are moving in the way that a director is telling you to move.

So much of that is about an interpretation of someone else's art.

Of all of the people's art around you, which is a great joy and the people who do it really well are masters at it.

You know, it's it is using that empathic tool to tell a really deep and and important story if you're if that is something that you're very good at.

But at the same time.

after the acting experience, and this is something that I think so many people don't understand about our business, is that you probably have only ever seen like 30% of the stuff that I have done, if that.

And that's any actor.

That's Meryl Streep.

That's the most famous actor and the least known actor.

Because once you've acted, there's so many other levels that that

piece of work has to go through in order to succeed to see the light of day it has to be edited very well and you have to hope that the editor and director on the same page and that the director directed it well then you have to hope even if you have a good film you have to hope that it goes into a festival and then even if it gets into a festival you have to hope it gets bought and then if it gets bought you have to hope they put the right marketing behind it and then if they do that you still have to hope that people go to theaters and see it

Same thing could be said about television.

You create something all the way through if you're doing a pilot.

It may never see the light of day.

Or it might go on and air for five episodes and disappear.

So it's a strange industry because you pour your heart and soul and physical self into things that often no one ever sees or no one knows about.

So in that way, I really felt like writing for me –

At least if I failed by it, I was failing by 100% of my own self-expression, as opposed to 50% of an expression that was part of me that still might fail anyway, if that makes sense.

Yeah.

Oh, absolutely.