The Daily Struggle

The secret of realising an artistic dream is similar to achieving anything else - it's a matter of overcoming your inner demons and doubts. A hundred times a day you need to draw on your faith in the vision that first motivated you, to see it and believe in it.

But when you're spending other people's money, and particularly in the indie film world, you also have to overcome a chorus of external doubters. They're never short of reasons as to why your project will fail, what's wrong with it, and why the obstacles are too massive to negotiate.

Producing, writing, directing - all of them are the equivalent of walking on the water. You can do it if you don't look down. It's in the hour by hour, day by day struggle that the battle is won.