There's this old saying that I think is really important to remember, and it goes something like "To be an overnight sensation in Hollywood, you usually have to work your ass off first."

And that's kind of exactly how we got the meteoric rise of Curry Barker.

If you haven’t been tracking the box office over the last couple of weeks, Barker’s psychological horror thriller, _Obsession_ , is…

"All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is."

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You might be the bad guy in someone else's story.

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Why does an industry full of creative, successful professionals make so many of them feel like they're just getting away with a con?

The anxiety that you're not keeping up isn't a personal failing - it's the predictable result of measuring yourself against a target that has never existed.