So You Want to Make a Movie... PART 2
A Willingness to be Embarrassed
In my humble opinion this is the most important thing one needs to face in order to do any sort of creative endeavor. Every step on the way you have to put yourself out there. You have to show your actors the script. You have to direct a whole bunch of people in public, and security guards will come by. Ultimately you will have to show people your movie. In any of these cases you will have to overcome your embarrassment to get your job done.
I think a lot of closet-artists hide their work out of fear of criticism. They might use excuses like, "My art is for me, I don't do it so other people" or "People don't get me" or "The medium of human skin carving is frowned upon in your society." Nonsense, they don't value criticism. They don't like criticism because they are embarrassed by either positive or negative attention of their work. One can not be objective about their own work. You can only make your work better if you open yourself to the opinions of others. Maybe you'll learn that your script doesn't make any sense, or that you cut to fast and people missed something, or that a particular scene actually had a strong impact on your viewers. In any of these cases you need to show it off, and in order to do that, you need to shrug off your embarrassment to improve your artistic work.
Embarrassment stands in the way of getting the work done, and in the way of improving your work. It has no place in making a film.
