Equity Mag Feb_18 Book Folder

COVER STORY
The key to fulfillment, success,
happiness, contentment in life is
when you align your personality
with what your soul actually came
to do. I believe everybody has a soul
and has their own personal
spiritual energy... when you are
doing stuff that you think might
make money, you think it may be a
hit, or you think it may bring you
some level of attention or success,
that isn’t what does it... all of the
great, wonderful experiences of my
life that have brought me to this
moment have come from working
from the interior of myself, and so
that’s why I feel so authentic,
because it actually is
The way you make movies is to do stuff you love. For 25
years, I worked on the Oprah Show, and I will tell you there
were nights when I came home and it was hard to even
take off my clothes because I knew I was going to be
getting up four hours later. I felt exhausted, but I never
felt depleted. Do the work that comes straight from the
soul of you, from your background, from stories that
you’ve grown up with, from stories that bring you passion,
from stories that you are not just drawn to tell it, but if you
don’t tell them, they don’t get told.
with politician George Bush, Beyoncé, and so on. They all
say the same thing. How was that? I started to see this
common thread in humanity where everybody wants to
know. Did I do okay? Did you hear me? And did what I
say something mean to you? I would have to say that
recognising that in other people has helped me to become
a person of compassion, a person of understanding, a
person who can interview anybody about anything,
because I know that at the core of you is the same as the
core of me. You just want to be heard.
What wisdom could you pass on to the future generation
of Hollywood that want to make films?
What would you say is the real key to success
in Hollywood?
The key to fulfillment, success, happiness, and contentment
in life, is when you align your personality with what your
soul came here to do. I believe everybody has a soul and
their own personal spiritual energy. When you can use your
personality to serve whatever that thing is, you can’t help
but be successful. Films that come from the interior of
your soul, art that comes from the interior of you, you
cannot miss. It’s only when you are doing stuff that you
think might make money, you think it may be a hit, or you
think it may bring you some level of attention or success,
that isn’t what does it. I would have to say that all the
great, wonderful experiences of my life that have brought
me to this moment, have come from working from the
interior of myself, and that’s why I feel so authentic,
because it is. And when you do that, you’ll win.
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