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>>Erik: How has setting expectations played a role in your career as a filmmaker?
>>Tricia: Well I`m actually in that process right now. It`s scary starting a film project
because I know what I`m in for. ItÕs going to be a long haul, at some point everyone
is going to be angry at me, I know that even if the money comes easily there are going
to be financial issues and business issues. I just know what`s coming. It`s scary. What
I do is I get attracted to something and I donÕt get invested in it. I take incremental
steps even when I`m thinking this is so not going to work. Just go and show up and keep
an open mind and let your wheels spin and let all the wheels of all the people spin.
And leave it to providence more or less. If the wheels keep spinning and everything gets
tightened and turned and it keeps progressing with some volition of its own, then you start
to get involved. And once you do at some point you`re going to have to drag that baby along.
But it has to have a certain momentum of its own because any film that gets made is a miracle.
So if you don`t feel that miracle vibe, that providence involved at some point in the early
stages, you can`t expect it to show up at some other point.