Issa Rae
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And so that was like eye-opening for me in a way where it was like, oh yeah, I'm beholden to a singular person's taste.
And while their taste might be broad and I respect their taste, everything's not going to be for them, which means like I'm
The things that I really, really want to make on a large scale, I can't make because of that.
And so that took me a long realization.
It took me a long time to realize.
And so that also made me double down in another area where I'm like, oh, I want to be able to make things independently and have a breeding ground for experimenting.
And I'm excited to do that more this year.
Not well, honestly.
I've heard that said a couple of times and like there was an incident that happened where those words were kind of used and I was like, oh, that's all right.
All right.
This is a business at the end of the day.
And...
We're not friends here.
And I can realize, I'm happy to realize that.
And it kind of made me disconnect.
And also in a hardened way, like look at myself as a product.
I think that that is taking feelings out of it where you're like, okay, I am creating a product.
I need a buyer.
And if they're looking at me that way, then there's a way where I need to balance like, and this actually happened also on the movie side, like working with studios and, you know, making things that a studio will be willing to buy.
That has changed so much.