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Who is he? Good question.
He's a guy who was born in Newfoundland,
and I think that's fundamental to who I am.
Born in a family of 6 kids.
An alcoholic father and a mother who committed suicide.
And yet it feels no tragedy in his life.
And I think the profundity of those events makes me
aware of just how important things actually are.
So what's important to talk about is why people
do the things they do.
Why they become who they are.
And we really thrive on engaging with people
who have stories to tell.
You get up in the morning,
you shovel the *** out of the horses' stalls.
You can't "not do it", because it has to be done.
It's something that's bigger than you are.
Something that's more important than you are.
Just like the film is more important than you are,
the culture is more important than you are,
and the storytelling is more important than you are.
You are just like a worker in all of this.
Your job is to do the best you can.
Film is not more important than people,
but film is important for us.
You have to really need to tell stories.
It's not about money.
It's never been about money.
It's always been about the need to tell stories.
But I think you have to have confidence in the
fact that your story is an important story.
Or your community story is an important story.
The universal is found in the particular,
and you are the particular.
All of that comes from having an inquisitive mind,
but in my particular case, coming from a
background where storytelling was important
and there were some really earth-shatteringly
fundamental things that happened that you can't deny,
you can't run away from, you can only engage with.