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Film Courage: Having found yourself without purpose during the pandemic, have you been in that situation since?
Wade Patterson, Filmmaker: I think there’s a constant battle with purposelessness especially as a creative because if you finish a project, well okay it’s done, but then what do you do next?
Then you’re in this place of what’s the next thing?
That can be a place of purposelessness and if you continue if you’re in the middle of a project and you hit a roadblock or writer’s block or whatever that can also feel like suddenly you’re spinning.
I have hit that at different points.
It’s definitely a tough place to be but as a creative person, as a writer and as a filmmaker, you just kind of have to find a way to put one foot in front of the other.
It’s very basic advice, but you just have to keep going.
I found that always the inspiration will come, the roadblock will disappear if you just kind of keep moving forward.
Sometimes you get caught up in Is this the best? Is this the best it can be?
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But something I’ve heard before is done is better than perfect.
I think that’s kind of my philosophy.
I need to get this done and it probably won’t be perfect, but at least it’ll be done.
If you’re a creative person, creating is what you do.
And if you don’t create stuff, then you’re not fulfilling your purpose.
So you have to create. You have to do something…(Watch the video interview on YouTube here).
About:
Wade Patterson grew up in Jackson, MS, and has been making film projects since he was a kid. However, after taking a break from film to go to India to work with a non-profit, he rediscovered a passion for writing in Asia. He returned to America with an expanded worldview and a new focus on telling stories that explore the full range of the human experience. He works in Los Angeles as Freelance Director of Photography. His latest project is about a disgraced journalist discovering an online puzzle that causes people to disappear (Death Cipher).
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