It is the ideal frame for a character whose entire existence has been defined by the gap between ambition and outcome, between desire and the anvil that lands on your head every single time.
The second I started to adapt my work to my own taste, experiences, and worldview, that is when things started to work. Authenticity and truth. If you are writing about something you genuinely care about, it is likely that other people will care about it, too.
You have to store up your confidence like you're setting off on the Oregon trail, and parcel it out very carefully.
... underneath the blood and camp is something deeply sincere. A film about identity. About desire. About the stories that shape us.
A love for who we were, but a refusal to let the past define us. Keep changing. Keep looking forward. That has driven my career more than anything else.
Because when you love someone the way the world came to love Bourdain, the last thing you should do is flatten them into a monument. The braver move is to show them being spectacularly, recognizably human.
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