This time the phrase/sentence that leapt out was “This kind of footloose improv movie production demands leaving natural shyness behind.”
Result: “I asked if we could possibly shoot a scene there, while wondering out loud if they would be so kind as to participate as onlookers for my actor’s Christmas pageant rehearsal. Surprisingly, they agreed.”
For me, so much of the “shyness” I experience is habitual fear of some kind of failure. When, for some reason, I remember that I have everything inside - as do we all - that I/we need to Be Who I/We Came Here To Be, the Ego-Fear subsides and I feel free to just say or do what I know I must say or do.
Thanks Steve, for all your personal reflections, which always help me to better understand what I’ve put myself through for movies (and life), and how, surprisingly, I got to almost always finish what started. Something has been going on that seems pretty magical, and every life has an ingredient of that, to hopefully experience some positivity.
What great stories of improvisational Magic!
This time the phrase/sentence that leapt out was “This kind of footloose improv movie production demands leaving natural shyness behind.”
Result: “I asked if we could possibly shoot a scene there, while wondering out loud if they would be so kind as to participate as onlookers for my actor’s Christmas pageant rehearsal. Surprisingly, they agreed.”
For me, so much of the “shyness” I experience is habitual fear of some kind of failure. When, for some reason, I remember that I have everything inside - as do we all - that I/we need to Be Who I/We Came Here To Be, the Ego-Fear subsides and I feel free to just say or do what I know I must say or do.
(Really love the Ray Carney quote at the end.)
Thanks Steve, for all your personal reflections, which always help me to better understand what I’ve put myself through for movies (and life), and how, surprisingly, I got to almost always finish what started. Something has been going on that seems pretty magical, and every life has an ingredient of that, to hopefully experience some positivity.