Every time I've gotten myself into trouble, it's because I'm choosing a project based on a long-term career goal as opposed to something that speaks to me at the moment.
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I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.
As much as I can and am able to, with the projects that are presented to me, I try to just really choose things that are challenging and are something I haven't tackled before.
I'll be totally honest in that I feel tremendously lucky that I am offered incredible jobs all the time to direct, but the problem that I have just personally is that there are only so many years in my life to dedicate to certain projects.
I usually have one project I'm focusing on but often have many other projects in the back of my mind for several years.
It's not easy to sustain a long career, and sometimes I don't even think about how long I've been doing it.
The bad experiences make you stronger and makes you focus on the next project.
Sometimes you never fully understand why you are attracted to a project until you get deeper into it.
I've always been a little bit cautious about what projects I step into. I don't mean to be dramatic, but I feel that every single thing you do in life, you give a piece of your soul, and I want to be responsible with that.
Planning a career, I always find that such a tricky thing, because I don't have much of a plan, really.
I consider projects very deeply, but there's always a point in your life where there's a bit of randomity.
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