But the way in which we are writers together has informed the others in the best and healthiest ways.
Writer/writer, producer/director, mom/dad, husband/wife. We have a lot of relationships in our relationship. I had to convince you that you were a writer, and you had to convince me that I could make a living doing it. I had to make you share credit with me the first time! I think we even fought about it?! You encouraged me, and then I had to turn around and do the same for you. Some of the best advice you’ve ever given me. I still appreciate it, though! You saw that the work I was doing was writing, and you told me to just write.
IM YOUR WOMAN MOVIE
I mean, “I’m Your Woman” is our fourth movie together, so you’d think by now I’d get it. In so many ways, that’s what you’ve always been telling me. Sidebar: I just went to count the words of this essay to know how much room we have left to write. You pushed me to write that first script. But I didn’t think I could make it a profession.
My mom used to buy me those lined journals with, like, flowers on the cover from the Hallmark store, and I would fill them with stories. Whereas you never identified as a writer (and still don’t?) I ALWAYS identified as a writer. I think my favorite thing about how we came to be writing partners is that we’re both the reason we’re writing. What were we talking about again? Oh, right, writing. That’s a really sweet thing to say! Thanks. That somehow calling yourself an artist is like saying, “I’m amazing! Aren’t I great?!” When all I hear when I hear the word “artist” is “I make art for a living.” What it really comes down to, I think, is insecurity. I’ve been spoiled by you, of course, in that I’ve only ever made movies with you, and having talked to other directors/writers you’ve worked with, you’re always like this. I want to talk about the preconceived notions we bring to the word “artist.” Like, why isn’t all of that being an artist? I think what this all comes down to is the general misconception about what it means to be a producer. But I find myself having trouble saying, “I am an artist.” Also the producer in me is saying this piece is supposed to be about “I’m Your Woman” -īut I want to talk about this. I recognize that our collaboration is about telling stories creating art together. Maybe the bigger thing, then, is about being an artist? I don’t really think of myself as an artist. “Gotta write! Gotta write! Gotttttaaaaaa write …” All that being said, I AM the writer you’re talking about. And, like any job, different people feel differently about it. I grew up in a house with a writer parent, so for me it was always just a job. I think jobs that get romanticized get romanticized.
But that doesn’t mean you’re not a writer.īut hold up - don’t you need to feel like a writer in order to be a writer? Don’t you need to wake up in the morning and think to yourself: Today I will write. We bring different things to the process. I’m always thinking of “makeability,” even when I’m writing.
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