I am reading a great book on low budget, independent filmmaking, and the writer shares some amazing philosophy, something I certainly didn’t expect to find in a book on filmmaking. Author Rick Schmidt is talking about making his first feature. He is out of money, broke, horribly behind on his rent, full of despair. And then he gets a telegram from the American Film Institute announcing that a panel of four, including King Vidor, had decided to award him $9,918 for his film. He writes:
“I had been saved! For the first time in months, I relaxed, not fully realizing the strain I had been living under. I was deliriously happy, relieved that I could now tell all those people to whom I owed money that I would soon be able to pay them back. All of a sudden everything was OK-great, in fact! But what was the difference between this week and last week? I still didn’t have any cash in my hand. The difference was the idea of money coming. I wished that I could have just thought “Money” and received all the energy that the idea of winning the grant had supplied.”
The power of thought. What do you think?