I can draw a straight line from that job to where I am now. I took a weekend and learned everything I could before starting the job the following week. (To put it in more pop culture terms: “If someone asks you if you’re a god, say yes!”)įlash forward to a couple of decades later someone offered me a job in an area of the industry that I was…less than experienced in. Wallach looked at my class and said that the one lesson he wanted us to take from this was: “When someone asks you to do something you’ve never done before: say yes.”
#Become a lance writer movie
You should direct a movie.” Parks had never directed a movie before, so he directed an adaption of his novel and would eventually direct Shaft.Īt the end of the documentary, Mr. Someone said, “Hey, you’re a pretty great writer. Gordon thought to himself, well, I never wrote a novel before, but why not? He wrote the bestseller, The Learning Tree. Someone told Gordon that he was a great photographer and that Gordon should write a novel. For those who don’t know, Parks was an award-winning photographer who focused on race and segregation beginning in the 1940s. Garcia: My high school photography teacher, Howard Wallach, once showed my class a documentary on Gordon Parks. The more you treat people with respect, the more everyone will be rewarded.Ĭhan: What is your attitude towards being asked to perform a skill or task that you haven’t done before? Too often in the entertainment industry, people lead with their egos and can be cruel or cutthroat to advance their careers, and I’ve found that is a short-term gain for a long-term loss. Garcia: “Don’t be an asshole.” I treat people with kindness and approach everything with joy. Most of my weekend runs are so I have an excuse to listen to an audio drama.Ĭhan: How would you describe your personal brand? You can create an immersive and cinematic story with just voices, sounds, and music. Audio drama is a storytelling format I love. I don’t follow any podcasts, but I love listening to audio dramas, typically from Big Finish.
The whole High Republic initiative has been such a fantastic exploration and expansion of the Star Wars galaxy, with every new story giving incredible new context to the stories we knew. Garcia: I’m reading Star Wars: The High Republic - Path of Vengeance by Cavan Scott. A person’s race, gender, sexuality, age, faith, etc., does not even begin to tell you who they are, nor does it denote their value.Ĭhan: What is a lesson that you’d share with your younger self?Ĭhan: What books are you reading or podcasts are you currently listening to? This is all to say my identity is complicated, but whose identity isn’t? My experience has taught me that we are much more complex and wondrous than our bullet point descriptors. Still, I am white-passing, so I have a sense of guilt that I don’t honor my heritage enough while acknowledging that, based on my appearance, I’ve not experienced the biases many of my family members experience every day. My Puerto Rican Eastern European Jewish American heritage is integral to my identity. Treating others with kindness was more important than attending synagogue or church regularly. My parents wanted us to be proud of our mixed heritage but never tried to pin us down. I had to ask my girlfriend what to do before sitting shiva and what blessings my Catholic father might want before he died. I was ostensibly raised Jewish but was never Bar Mitzvahed, nor was I baptized.
Beyond Christmas trees, menorahs, Passover dinners, and Easter eggs, my parents didn’t get very specific regarding religion. Garcia: I come from a mixed-faith/race family. I hope to one day get them a puppy so I can say, “These are my cats, and this is their dog, Bob.”Ĭhan: How has your identity factored into your journey?
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