I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Two years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be doing half the stuff I'm doing, I wouldn't have believed it.
I was told millions of times that I was never going to achieve what I set out to, but I decided to do it, and I did it.
There's a gap between people knowing what I do and really believing that I still do that - and wondering what it is I really do.
There's obviously some validity to it. But I think it also points out that you obviously can do it on your own because people have been doing it long before they had the stuff.
I don't think anyone has made me except myself. I think I have done it on my own.
It took me a long time to realize that to walk around without a certain amount of belief in myself, to walk onto a job with my tail between my legs, wasn't behooving anyone else.
When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.
I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.
I've always believed in myself, and it's such a long competition over two days, you can't worry about what anyone else is doing.
I felt that there were so many people doing it that I would just be like one of the others.