Downsides of growing up

When you've made a few movies, then it's almost impossible to maintain that purity of fandom that one has in their teens. For various reasons: a mix of superstition, keeping from plagiarising, and more real-life commitments, I can't really watch as many films or TV series as I did even a few years ago. Though it was my choice, the editing schedule of The Dakumentary was really brutal, and now I'm accustomed to that mode of doing things. I'm spending a few hours a day on the opera, plus there's the activism and all the showbiz chatter. After that, I often prefer to see something familiar rather than something new, and that's also about maintaining the authorial voice. Life becomes a tapestry, rather than a bunch of binge sessions (that's how I recall my teens and early twenties being). - I don't mind caricatures of parodies or myself. but I seldom love them. Cadence had this character with a red-and-black jacket in her high school show, and I actually found it mostly charming.