How Filmmaking Became My Escape from Intimacy

How Filmmaking Became My Escape from Intimacy

For years, filmmaking wasn’t just my work; it was my shield. A way to stay busy enough, successful enough, distracted enough to avoid getting too close to the one place closeness scared me most: intimacy.As a young director and production company owner making ads for Nike, Coca-Cola, National Geographic, and Mercedes-Benz, I lived on planes, in edit bays, and in hotel lobbies firing off treatments before sunrise.I called it ambition. I called it…