How to Be a Successful Writer

"I've kind of gone a lot of meandering paths and I just kind of pounded out, pounded out," he says. "When you think you've got it, you don't have it." He had no idea how to code web pages in 1996 until eventually he could do his own stuff. A couple years later, he gets this opportunity to direct a documentary film. That's going to be easy to direct but not so sure about the content. The last two years, he figured, well, I've got all these experiences, all this perspective.

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