Secret Of The Creative Life

The secret of the creative life

is often to feel at ease with your own embarrassment.

We are paid to take risks, to look silly.

Some people, like racing car drivers

are paid to take risks in a more concrete way.

We are paid to take risks in an emotional way.

The film critic is like a medical examiner.

He gets the cadaver on the table, he opens it up,

and tries to figure out why it died.

The filmmaker is like the pregnant mother

who is simply trying nurture this thing.

You have to keep the medical examiner

out of the delivery room because he will get in there

and he will kill that baby.

~ Paul Schrader, interviewed by Terry Gross, Fresh Air (from Heron Dance)

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