Amazon Studios 45 days - Still evaluating?

[Incognito]

Originally Posted by Turbopolis

Ed, That's what my wife has been telling me that I have to pay more attention to the family rather than to an imaginary Hollywood career.

Good advice.

[grumpywriter]

Originally Posted by Incognito

Good advice.

VERY good advice.

Kids/family will always make you happier than anything in the screenwriting can

[madworld]

Originally Posted by EdFury

Touch God's Beard? We have different priorities. I love writing. I love being involved in the creations of film and TV. I love it all. But it pales in comparison to my family. My wife and kids and their families. That's what I thank God for every day.

I feel exactly the same way. Just very grateful. If the career can happen - great - but I've already got it all.

[Mpimentel]

Originally Posted by madworld

I feel exactly the same way. Just very grateful. If the career can happen - great - but I've already got it all.

I'm the exact opposite, and maybe life will change me... But I feel it's more important for me to accomplish something that will last after I'm gone.

I feel if I can inspire future generations with whatever I do while I'm here, that overshadows trying to please myself or the people around me in this small moment.

I feel like life's pleasures are just distractions from what I'm supposed to do. And again, maybe time will change me... Maybe on my deathbed I'll be that guy saying "wish I would have spent more time with my family/friends", but alas I can only do what I feel now. I have no kids or plans of having any, any time soon (obviously too selfish right now for that)...

Doing this, is literally more important to me than friends, family, social life... The burning desire to create, over-shadows reason.

I am a creator, maybe I created myself here, to give myself a vacation from creating, but even in this temporary getaway I still need to create.

[madworld]

Originally Posted by Mpimentel

I'm the exact opposite, and maybe life will change me... But I feel it's more important for me to accomplish something that will last after I'm gone.

I feel if I can inspire future generations with whatever I do while I'm here, that overshadows trying to please myself or the people around me in this small moment.

I feel like life's pleasures are just distractions from what I'm supposed to do. And again, maybe time will change me... Maybe on my deathbed I'll be that guy saying "wish I would have spent more time with my family/friends", but alas I can only do what I feel now. I have no kids or plans of having any, any time soon (obviously too selfish right now for that)...

Doing this, is literally more important to me than friends, family, social life... The burning desire to create, over-shadows reason.

I am a creator, maybe I created myself here, to give myself a vacation from creating, but even in this temporary getaway I still need to create.

You will get no judgement from me brother. Best of luck that you achieve your goals. All I can say is that experiencing life through your kids' eyes is something really really magical. And putting good people into this world is the legacy I will be the most proud of.

[Mpimentel]

Originally Posted by madworld

You will get no judgement from me brother. Best of luck that you achieve your goals. All I can say is that experiencing life through your kids' eyes is something really really magical. And putting good people into this world is the legacy I will be the most proud of.

And that's why I mentioned the "I don't have kids" thing, because that is a way to leave something behind, and that is probably the greatest creation one can be a part of... But I can't yet feel it, because I am not there... Maybe one day

And, thank you.

[surftatboy]

When you're on your death-bed, you do not, even for a split second, think about film. Promise. Been there done that.

Google Steve Jobs dying thoughts. It was assuredly not about Apple.

"Film is about life. Life is not about film." ~Surftatboy

[Incognito]

Originally Posted by Mpimentel

I feel if I can inspire future generations with whatever I do while I'm here

.

If this is really what you want to do go and make art out of the frozen tears of homeless women, or something. Not choose trying to write movies for Hollywood.

[Mpimentel]

Originally Posted by surftatboy

When you're on your death-bed, you do not, even for a split second, think about film. Promise. Been there done that.

Google Steve Jobs dying thoughts. It was assuredly not about Apple.

"Film is about life. Life is not about film." ~Surftatboy

Oh I know, as I said maybe in my dying bed I'd be one of the people that says "wish I would have spent more time with my family"...

The thing about that is, however, that maybe that is what I would feel THEN, but this is what I feel NOW, everyday now.. not just on my deathbed.. That's a very short time.

Guess I could spend my life making sure on my deathbed I don't feel a certain way, for those few fleeing moments, or make sure I don't feel a certain way right now, for all these years.

I'm willing to bet, that had Steve Jobs recovered, he would have been right back to work and that moment would just have been that, a moment. Some people just have to work, and do, and create, over everything... It is insane.

Originally Posted by Incognito

If this is really what you want to do go and make art out of the frozen tears of homeless women, or something. Not choose trying to write movies for Hollywood.

Just because it's Hollywood and money is being made doesn't mean it's not art, and it's not inspiring.

Films tell our stories and lots of films as well as music define a time period. You say "hollywood" as if that means sell out or popcorn... If I'm able to create something that'll be quoted, or something that is referenced 100 years after I'm gone... Or maybe inspire someone else to write movies because that's what they saw me do and I gave them a feeling they want to relive... Then I'm alive.

Elvis is alive, and probably always will be.

I wanna be Elvis.

I'm not trying to argue that I'm right btw, just being honest about my feelings. To me, THIS is what I'm here for... Everything else is distraction.

Wolves run in packs, they fight, they mate, hunt, eat, have a social status and so on... I can spend my life living like that, but I have the power to CREATE... That's what makes me different than those animals.... Why would I live life like them? Why would I aspire to just be that?

When, or if I have kids perhaps I will come here singing a different tune, and I will say "man, you guys were soooo right"... But I can't fake a feeling I don't have now.

[madworld]

Originally Posted by Mpimentel

Oh I know, as I said maybe in my dying bed I'd be one of the people that says "wish I would have spent more time with my family"...

The thing about that is, however, that maybe that is what I would feel THEN, but this is what I feel NOW, everyday now.. not just on my deathbed.. That's a very short time.

Guess I could spend my life making sure on my deathbed I don't feel a certain way, for those few fleeing moments, or make sure I don't feel a certain way right now, for all these years.

I'm willing to bet, that had Steve Jobs recovered, he would have been right back to work and that moment would just have been that, a moment. Some people just have to work, and do, and create, over everything... It is insane.



Just because it's Hollywood and money is being made doesn't mean it's not art, and it's not inspiring.

Films tell our stories and lots of films as well as music define a time period. You say "hollywood" as if that means sell out or popcorn... If I'm able to create something that'll be quoted, or something that is referenced 100 years after I'm gone... Or maybe inspire someone else to write movies because that's what they saw me do and I gave them a feeling they want to relive... Then I'm alive.

Elvis is alive, and probably always will be.

I wanna be Elvis.

I'm not trying to argue that I'm right btw, just being honest about my feelings. To me, THIS is what I'm here for... Everything else is distraction.

Wolves run in packs, they fight, they mate, hunt, eat, have a social status and so on... I can spend my life living like that, but I have the power to CREATE... That's what makes me different than those animals.... Why would I live life like them? Why would I aspire to just be that?

When, or if I have kids perhaps I will come here singing a different tune, and I will say "man, you guys were soooo right"... But I can't fake a feeling I don't have now.

Not really for me to tell you this, but absolutely, you can be who you want to be. Your feelings are as valid as anybody on this board. So if you want it, go after it with everything you have. Rumble young man, rumble.