I'm curious because you have been in the industry for so long do you feel like it has like both in the writing and film world have you felt a big shift and as a teacher now are you kind of trying to help guide your students into a new era or do you think it's been the same

um so if If I'm answering this question because I didn't hear you exactly, stop me.

But I want to offer up where we were and where we are.

As I've mentioned, I truly think when it comes to creativity, now I'm a writer-director, but I know it's a hundred times harder to write something good than to direct something good.

You know, it really is.

I mean, as I tell my students, you know, a good director can screw up, you know, a bad...

A good director can't make... a good film.

So here,