Andrew Levitas

So great.

My final question for you is, let's say someone who is listening to this episode has heard all the incredible stuff that you have done.

And I'm sure many of those accomplishments are things you could have never seen coming, you know, 25, 30 years ago when you were on a set of Boy Meets World playing Crazy Luther.

What advice would you give to someone who's looking to make all of their artistic dreams turn into a successful career?

Sure.

So, you know, I teach at NYU and I've been doing it for about a little over a decade, maybe.

And I get asked this specific question all the time.

And

I think there's two pieces.

The first piece is, I think that there's a mistake that happens in modern society where everything is about specialization, right?

And I think that we've lost this idea that being an artist is a state of mind, not a discipline, right?

And so you become an actor, you become a director, you become a painter or a novelist or a screenwriter or a novelist or whatever that is.

And I think being an artist is about...

I think the job is to take in as much information that you can from the world around you, right?

To have your eyes up.

It's when you take the subway to not be locked into your earbuds as good as it feels, right?

But to be looking at people, it's seeing how people interact, being a,

that's studying the world around you and reading everything, listening to everything, being uncomfortable, going to places and having conversations with people that you don't agree with, right?

Taking it all in.

And I think the job is then like mixing it around, finding the subjects that you care about and then finding ways to put it out, right?