“There is absolutely zero way to predict how your creative career will go. You could be read by a producer and get a movie tomorrow. You could hit it big 10 years from now. No one knows.
The anxiety, of course, comes from the fact that it's hard to plan a future around something no one knows anything about. The only thing you can control is the work. So get back to it.”
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