How to Get Good: Be Bad?
» S.D. Smith
On the subject of trying to become a filmmaker (or insert your aspiration –writing?), some words to consider…
“One other thing. Darren didn’t quote Chesterton, but he might as well have. ‘Anything worth doing is worth doing badly.’ Those who just get in there to do it are doing well. But when teenagers (say) make a feature length movie (which they ought to try, as per Darren’s talk), they need to know what they are doing. They are making a terrible movie. That’s how you get good at things — by being bad at them, doggedly and with humility.”
From Douglas Wilson (here for the context)
And here’s a cool picture.
September 23rd, 2009 at 9:47 am
And we are each the expendable guy on the Away Team.
September 23rd, 2009 at 9:51 am
Amen!
September 23rd, 2009 at 10:42 am
Well, that makes me feel much better about myself. I’ve been doing stuff badly for years and years.