Filmmaker Barry Polterman On The Five Things You Need To Create A Highly Successful Career in TV and Film

…The last thing I learned is the most important — I think when I was younger, I expected and thought that the work that I would create or the things that I would make would be the most important thing that I could do on this earth. I think as I’ve gotten older — this sounds cliché and trite — but, you realize that the impact that you have on people, your family, and your children is the most important thing. And that’s actually something that is explored in the movie quite a bit. How the characters, how Joanne and Paul, and then Ethan as a character, his own journey of discovery is a big part of the film itself, kind of learned these lessons of what’s really important at the end of the day. Is it important to win awards? You maybe start to realize, as you get older, that while the…

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