>Don't you get tired of the 'I can't discuss it yet' and the 'I can neither >confirm or deny that' and the showing of a neutral or optimistic face for the >sake of the project even though it's gone to hell in a handbasket? The >political crap seems that it would grind you down and sand off your >integrity. >How do you deal with it?
I don't, basically, as the whole TNT situation makes fairly evident. I'm simply not a political creature. My life would be eminently simpler and less stressful if I *were*, but I ain't. I go for the philosophy of "Be sand, not oil, in the machinery of the world."
The peculiar thing about it is...by all rights I should be hard-core unemployable. But any time I become available, the phone rings...people who work with me invariably come back to work with me again,fully knowing that I'm a major-league pain in the ass. I think the reason they do so is because they know that I'm *not* political, that whatever some might say the truth is that when I show up at the office in the morning, I check my ego at the door and everything I do, I do if I sincerely believe it's the best thing for the show, and the story.
Somehow, it works. Damned if I understand it.
jms
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