The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness.
In some ways, I think "Pulp Fiction" hurt cinema in a very, very minor, small way. It did a massive amount of good. But it also made it impossible to make a movie even remotely like it without someone comparing it to "Pulp Fiction".
TV writing is tricky to navigate because you have so many different personalities - the actors, multiple producers.
What is interesting to me about Vikings is that they were failed farmers.
Incarceration didnt change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.
