Andrew Levitas

Like I have books of poetry.

I've tried to write a couple of novels.

I've never gotten them out there, right?

But I did it because there was something that was...

felt right to me something that i wanted to to look at and examine and a story i wanted to tell but it wasn't right to make a film it wasn't right for tv series wasn't right for a body of of of sculptural work right so it needed to be a book but it didn't work it's not good enough i couldn't get it there but that's the place that it should have been and it made sense and so that's part one is is keeping going and the other thing is

that's connected to it is, is being open.

Right.

Like I may yet find a moment where I step back in front of the camera.

In fact, I can't wait for that moment.

Um, where, you know, I'd have to work out a lot more and get fit and, and, and, and do some other things.

But, you know, I can't wait to sit on the other side of the camera now, um,

I'm not actively looking, but when that comes, my approach would be totally different and it might come right.

And there may be a whole other turn for me.

So I think it's about having confidence to know that inside of you, you're capable of doing any of these things, right?

You just have to commit and work.

And, and part of that, by the way, is, and this is also something I tell my students, um,

All of the 18, 19, 20, 22-year-olds, the people that are coming out of school, if they're going to go be a banker or they're going to go be a lawyer or they're going to go be an engineer, they're going to work all day, every day at what they do.

I think there's a feeling for artists where they sort of fall into this despair sometimes and they don't just constantly push forward.

like push work they don't work on it and you don't have to if you're a screenwriter you don't have to sit at a computer and write all day right you can be out walking around and seeing the world and just trying to be inspired um and i think that work ethic is something that artists sometimes wrestle with because they feel like they're it's wasting time it's somehow wasting time to watch five films in a row but it doesn't have to be if you have an objective with it right

Andrew, thank you so much for coming.