Persistence & Patience

"I went back and started to put together what I thought were a series of really good projects. I was going to go get them funded, and all the people I normally would go to for funding just looked at me blankly. I felt crazy. I felt like I was speaking a foreign language. I had been nominated for an Academy Award and I had been nominated for an Emmy, and this was maybe two years after the Emmy nomination. I thought doors would open, but instead it was like, wait, who are you, no, we do not want any of that. It felt incredibly lonely. Those seven years of the unraveling of the ego and the ideas of who I thought I was, those were rough, plus I'm raising children, so it's so much learning. The lesson was just to keep showing up. Every time I showed up again, and Peter showed up again, and our company and our partners all showed up again, we showed up differently, and there was always a little bit of a shift, a little bit of a change, a lesson that we learned, a letting go of some previous idea that we were hanging and clinging on to."