always be fifteen

chapter two of a book I'm readind (what they don't teach you in film school."


chapter 2: Always be Fifteen

At fifteen you don't believe in "authority." Not without questions, anyway. And certainly not more than you believe in your own.

Years later, you may be wiser but not smarter. You're worried about having money, car insurance, a job, etc., and for this you make some compromises to get the approval of the the people who are in a position to make this happen for you. You are afraid of losing something-- your nascent financial independnece--and this fear nudges you into a relationship to authority figures where you give over to them a certain piece of your brilliant, untamed self in exchange for....
some cash...