Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
cheap nowadays, and it's a way to capture your vision of what
you're trying to do on video.
If not, you can also write it as some type of book first, then you
have total control of the storyline, and Hollywood picks up books
faster than they pick up screenplays. But the adaptation you
wouldn't have control over of course, and when you're meeting
with Hollywood people don't tell them you don't care about the
money [Laughs], that's all they care about. It's like looking at your
dog and saying, I don't care about meat, I'm going to make you a
vegetarian. Although I know some vegan dogs, most dogs want
the meat, and that's how Hollywood agents and producers are,
they want the cash, they're doing it for the cash.
So I take very interesting meetings with them, I take them the
same way we're having this Satsang, I finally have become
integrated and I am Prasad. In fact my producing partner, Matt
Muzio, who I've been referring to, he kept saying over the last
three years as we were struggling to break in and having conflicts
and all the drama that ensued, and all the ego trips, he kept saying
to me, "Just be Prasad, just be Prasad". And finally a couple of
years ago I realized I've just got to be Prasad, and that surrender
happened, and attached to my film Freedom High, which is about
awakening youth. And I had another couple of young movie stars,
one of them who retired on Twitter, and so now I have to attach a
different person on that role.
So the producing game is not very fun for someone like me, who
doesn't really believe in money even, but it is an entrepreneurial
effort like Wizard spoke of. And there's something to be said
about being entrepreneurial, because you're a self-starter, selfregulated,
you create your team, you work together, you create a
product, and put it out to the world. And that's what a filmmaker
is, but once you move into the Hollywood game, now you're
talking corporation, and so it smacks of all of those trappings that
we spoke of earlier.
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