Finish Your Project & Believe in Yourself w/ Hit Film Producer, James D. Stern

On James:

James D. Stern is a prolific and award-winning writer, director, producer and storyteller. Some of his best-known projects include, The Producers, Hairspray, Stomp, Academy Award-nominated films such as An Education and Hotel Rwanda and more recently, Netflix’s Murder Mystery and coming up, Amazon Studios’ Bliss.

From this conversation, you’ll learn:

• How James got his start as a producer and director
• Why sometimes your biggest break can come from your hometown
• The power of Genuine Curiosity & Leaning in
• How to talk with people who disagree with you, politically
• How to NEVER EVER Give Up
• How seeing objectively bad work can help you on your journey
• How to believe in Yourself when no one else does
• Why he never gave up on Netflix’s Murder Mystery (and how you can keep your faith in your long-stalled projects)
• No one knows anything, so it’s fine that you don’t either!
• How to recover from failure and how he has!
• How to finance independent films (and where the money actually comes from)
• Why Theatre people are special
• Tips for Young Filmmakers
• How to know if you have what it takes to become an actor
• Why the entertainment industry is in a way closer to the old studio model than it has been in years
• Why you should write a script you NEED to do
• How he has taken fear out of the driver’s seat of his life
• How to Stay present
• Why time is our most valuable asset

And a lot more!

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