MIGUEL PARGA

Success has an interesting way of disguising itself. When we're young, we often imagine it wearing someone else's face. We want someone else's career, someone else's confidence, someone else's life. For years, I wanted to be Steven Spielberg. Not just make movies like him. I wanted his life. It wasn't until I began teaching filmmaking that a single question from one of my students completely changed the way I thought about creativity—and ultimately about my own life. This isn

I used to live for Friday night movie premieres. I don't anymore. This isn't because I've stopped loving cinema. Quite the opposite. I've spent nearly thirty years studying storytelling, and somewhere along the way I realized I wasn't falling in love with new movies the way I used to. Here's why.