{"id":60,"date":"2008-05-20T11:59:55","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T15:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/05\/20\/autocrats-misanthropes-and-narcissists\/"},"modified":"2014-09-05T11:05:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T15:05:24","slug":"autocrats-misanthropes-and-narcissists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/05\/20\/autocrats-misanthropes-and-narcissists\/","title":{"rendered":"Autocrats, Misanthropes and Narcissists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/etc\/programs\/tb\/tb080512hollywood_on_the_cou\">this interview<\/a> recently on NPR&#8217;s <em>The Business<\/em> that for whatever cosmic reason just resonated with my life at the exact right moment. The Claude Brodesser-Akner interview was with Dennis Palumbo a Hollywood writer turned therapist to Hollywood writers, actors, etc. Palumbo basically hits the nail on the head with his observation that creative types trying to make a go of the entertainment industry aren&#8217;t really crazy, they&#8217;re just royally screwed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m paraphrasing.<\/p>\n<p>The basic conclusion laid out in the interview (which coincidentally was reinforced in my mind this past weekend over two nights of intense shooting for <em>Refrain<\/em>) is that whether you&#8217;re an aspiring writer, director or actor you essentially <em>must<\/em> go into this industry even knowing full well it&#8217;s going to beat you into the ground over and over again. As a &#8220;creative&#8221; you can&#8217;t help it. You can&#8217;t do anything else. Another vocation just isn&#8217;t even an option.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a little disturbing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the interview grabbed me, so I thought I&#8217;d pass it on.<\/p>\n<p><em>Refrain<\/em>&#8216;s production is coming along! By the end of next week I&#8217;ll need to have my name pinned to my jacket just to remember what it is, but the result is going to be worth it. Who would have thought making a movie would be so exhausting?<\/p>\n<p>T<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard this interview recently on NPR&#8217;s The Business that for whatever cosmic reason just resonated with my life at the exact right moment. The Claude Brodesser-Akner interview was with Dennis Palumbo a Hollywood writer turned therapist to Hollywood writers, actors, etc. Palumbo basically hits the nail on the head with his observation that creative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-the-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tylergibb.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}