“Find your voice. And by that I mean, find the type of story you want to tell and how you want to tell it. You know, find what’s important to you and stick to that. Don’t give in to the temptation of shaping yourself around some sort of perception of what the market wants or what people out there want, or, god forbid, what critics want. What anybody wants, but you. Really- find your thing, find what makes your voice unique and stick to your guns. Because in the short term it’s gonna seem like that’s what’s holding you back - it’s going to make it seem like that’s why it’s difficult to break in. In the long term, though, that’s what’s going to make your voice unique and that’s what’s gonna pop you up above the crowd and get you noticed. And on a more fundamental level, that’s what’s going to sustain you creatively, is being honest about what you want to put out there in the world”
(Source: makingof.com)
“I was frustrated with the results, but it occurred to me that there was no solution as long as my job was trying to imitate someone else’s voice. The obvious solution was to find a situation where I was doing me, not someone else. The major obstacle to this is your deeply seated belief that “you” is not interesting.”
(Source: Guardian)
