Issa Rae

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.