It is a very frustrating thing to be the face of a creative project and yet essentially have zero creative control over that project. Essentially, you're a pawn in the system.
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When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want.
As a creative person you just get an idea in your head, and sometimes you just can't shake it off.
I am prone to get carried away thinking about creative projects.
A creative project is a moving target. You never end up where you start.
And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.
The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.
Some things are very low profile, but if they excite me creatively, I accept them. Sometimes there are high-profile projects, and you have to do it. We all have human limitations. It is a painful decision to turn things down. Even accepting 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a decision that I had to sacrifice another project.
You're really creative when you're in an environment that you don't know how to handle. So collaborating was like that for me. I think that was one of the reasons why I knew I was gonna get a challenging reaction.
Till the time I found a creative outlet, I was trying to be extra creative at business, which would always put me in a situation of conflict with other stakeholders. The moment I started writing, my creative impulses were finally channelised.
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