What I’ve learned collaborating with others

What I’ve learned collaborating with others

Episode Transcript

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Hey, good morning people. Howare you. I hope you guys you're
having a great morning. It's aTuesday over here. I don't know where,
what country, Tuesday everywhere. Iliterally just got up. But gonna
keep going, keep going, keepmoving people. That's the name of the

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game. You keep moving, right. I wanted to talk a little bit
today about partnerships, and I probablytalked about this before, but sorry,
because you know, yesterday I wassomebody called me from Florida, I where
I used to live as young comic, and you know, he was interested

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in making his own work, likea short film, and he was gaging
my interest if I wanted to helpproduce his short film. If you don't
know anything about me, I've madea few things in my time. I
made a few web series, I'vemade some pilots feature a movie, all

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on grassroots budgets. You know,never never was pitched. They never pitched
and got funding for anything. Ikind of did it on my own,
figured out how to do it,and that's how that's how you do it.
Um. I've heard a lot offilmmakers say, if you want to
learn filmmaking, just go out anddo it. Go learn how to shoot

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go learn how to write, likejust be your own machine. And I
told this guy, I was like, ah, you know, I really
don't want to produce anybody's projects rightnow. You know, no offense to
him. I just been there,done that. And but I was telling
him about partnerships, about finding somebodyyou know, in Florida that he could

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partner up with, because you know, people can compliment each other. But
I was also telling them about aboutyou know how sometimes partnerships don't work out.
I mean, look, I've partneredwith a few people, and some
of them have been great. I'velearned so much from the other person.
Sometimes they don't work out for me. Most of my partnerships don't work out

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just because you know, people havetheir own issues in their life. You
know, I've felt people who havehad no substance abuse problems, which can
affect the work. You know,work ethic for me is a big thing.
You know. I'm a guy who'ssingle who can put a lot of
time into work, while you know, my partners have gotten married and kids,

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and then I get frustrated, youknow, so sometimes sometimes things just
don't align. But with that said, like I'm working with somebody right now,
and she's fantastic, absolutely fantastic whereI'm actually learning, you know,
I'm applying what I'm learning from herand her notes to my other stuff that

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I'm doing. And I think inthat regard, you can always learn from
people. You can always pick upa few things from people. You don't
have to go all in and workwith somebody for the rest of your life.
But I mean collaborating for a project, you know, here and there,
like, there's nothing wrong with that. I mean, filmmaking, unfortunately,

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is a collaborative media some extent.I mean, I know, a
director really calls the shots on theset, but you do have to work
with people. There's no way aroundthat. I mean, God help me.
I mean, if you have moneythat's coming from somebody else, from
somewhere else, you know, youhave to answer to them. I mean
studios, you know, look atdailies every day. I mean, filmmaker

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directors are replaced halfway through the set, halfway through the through the production.
So this is something which you kindof have to learn how to do if
you want to be successful in Hollywood. And look, I'm not saying I'm
I'm Steven Spielberg. I'm just sayingI've done a few things and I finished

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a few things, which I think, which I think does give me some
credibility because a lot of people havenot created their own work. I mean,
that's just the facts. People whohaven't executives especially, I have friends
who are agents, big agents andmanagers, like never they never went out

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and shot anything. I mean,they never like really being risked being a
creative and putting work out there.That's a thing, you know, that
that takes a considerable amount of justself belief in yourself too, because you
know there's a time wh you're gonnabe bad. It takes a long time
to really find your voice and reallystart to get good at what you're doing.

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It takes time and effort, socollaborating it's not really the thing I
love. I don't love it perse. You know, I don't like
waiting on somebody. But you canlearn so much. I mean, I

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mean, right now I'm learning alot. And you know, my partners
a few pegs above me in theentertainment ladder, which I don't mind saying
that. In fact, actually actuallyI'm very appreciative of that because because hopefully
it'll open doors for me but forgetabout that. It's just working with her.

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I've just elevated my own game andtry to, you know, become
a better screenwriter picking up stuff.So if you want to make something,
I would say, you know,do your own ship, but you know,

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leave the door open for partnership ifit makes sense for you. But
don't ever think like you have towork with somebody else because because for me,
I mean, my partner has alwayslet me down for some reason.
In the long run, that's justwhat happens. Like there's this thing where
you can only rely on yourself.That's the That's what I've learned. I

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hope you guys have a great day. We'll talk soon. Take care.