I used to think directing was about control. Making Model Parent changed my mind about what it means to hold a vision – and when to let go of it.

Sometimes what keeps us watching isn’t wondering what happens next, but looking more closely at what’s already there: a pause, a glance, the possibility that someone understands something before they’re ready to say it.

On place, memory, unfinished conversations, and on the temptation to explain things that may be more powerful when they remain unresolved.

You make something, send it out into the world and … nothing. Then you have to decide what that nothing means.

The possibility of being found depends on being findable.

We don’t always need to know where something is leading. Sometimes the most useful thing we can do is make the next thing possible. Take one step, learn from what happens, and let that change what comes next.