00:00If you know how to tell stories, it's a skill that will be useful no matter what.
00:07I have a young daughter who just graduated with her master's degree in screenwriting from Tisch.
00:12She is a young creator, starting her career in a very difficult field.
00:17I have no good advice for her.
00:19However, there's two things that are true, which is she knows that this is all that she wants to do
00:27since she was 15.
00:29And she devoted her life ever since to do that and has written many things already.
00:34So I know she's a storyteller.
00:36The format may change, but storytelling always plays a role in people's lives.
00:42From the caveman, there was storytelling on the walls edged into the caves.
00:46So storytelling has always been there.
00:48So if you know how to tell stories, it's a skill that will be useful no matter what.
00:54How you deliver it, what the format is, what the distribution platform is, all of that may change.
00:59But if you know the essence of storytelling, it's good.
01:01So I'm actually confident that she'll succeed in some way.
01:06It's not because of any specific advice that I have for her.
01:08It's just very general advice.
01:10But I also don't know how to predict the future.
01:13My parents couldn't have prepared me for the future that I live at all.
01:17I don't think I can prepare her for that either, other than general advice.
01:21I don't know how to predict the future.
01:21I don't know how to predict the future.
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