The 19 Keys and this is High Level Conversation. Peace Family is 19 Keys. Welcome to another High Level Conversation. Today we have a very special guest, as always.
This is a brother who has made cinematic history, who has brought us very striking visual presentations, and who has a very special place in court. If you're familiar with his work, then you know he has worked with very great stars, and he continues to do works in multiple mediums, from video shoots, to art installations, to documentaries, or movies. Now, it's not so many people that achieve greatness. There's a lot of people that try to direct.
There's a lot of people that try to get into the film industry. But you have to have a certain passion for what you do, and you have to have a certain genius, and a certain vision for what you do to even direct, to be able to give direction so that the vision, as in your mind, can actually be brought out when people are able to intake exactly what they're experiencing. So you become a curator of visuals. Here are high level conversations.
We try to make sure that the direction and the flow of every episode allows you to jump into the experience so that you can feel like you were there. With the type of visuals that he has left those with, he have already left an impression in the mark on the whole entire world. And always think about our guests in terms of if they didn't exist, what would the game be like? And it will be missing a lot of pivotal moments if we didn't have the great artistic eye and direction of the good brother, the director, X.
So I appreciate you being here today, brother. I'm happy to have you on high level conversation. Thank you. Thank you.
So I want to start with a question. These are conversations, not an interview, so back and forth flow in a build. You know, I was thinking, as I was just thinking about what a director does, right? Being able to move the pieces and really have to think outside of self and be empathetic and aware of how everybody else is going to view the presentation, right?
What they're going to experience, what they're going to feel. And I was thinking about that in terms of life, right? We are all the main characters in our own stories, right? Some of us have dramatic stories, some of us have sad stories, some of us, you know, go after the enemy and we become heroes in our own tales, right?
And in the lives on a daily basis, I'm always thinking about my life, right? And how will my legacy end? And I'm thinking of I am a good director of my own main character, right? And in terms of that sort of external self, right?
And you being the master of self that gets to direct your own movie, what do you think a good director for their own life looks like if you can in terms of it as far as the way you play it together on screen? I mean, I don't know how to apply it to life, but I can tell you what I feel a good director is and how that, and then everyone can make that analogy themselves. The beginning is understanding of the craft, right? You understand, I say, well, you're going to fuck with the camera, right?
I'm a director, I know my lenses, I know the equipment, I know how to apply that knowledge into a performance how to make a line be a little more if I do this, you know what I mean? And the lights and the wardrobe and the makeup. And then once you have spent your time on the craft and just the art itself, well, then now the next layer is understanding the workings of it. Well, if I want to do that shot with that piece of equipment, how long is that going to take?
Then if I want that other shot, how long is that going to take? But when does the sun go down? And how long is it going to take us to the next location? So now I need, so you understand?
I start with my passion of the art, I just love it, and all I want to do is study. I want to study story structure and camera and acting. And then I layer back, I want to be able to speak about the lights and the equipment and the makeup and the wardrobe. And then when I step back, I want to be able to understand the logistics of what the trucks on that street and what's that mean when we, you know what I mean?
There's all these things. And then there's the next step back is the team that I have to motivate, lead, right? And part of the leadership of a team is that, okay, he knows what he's doing or she knows what she's doing. Everyone wants to feel like they're leading someone who deserves to be in their position, that knows what they're doing.
Yeah? So all that knowledge comes together, go, oh, this guy knows the camera, this guy knows all the pieces. Oh, he even knows the logistics. Okay, so now I got that.
The team feels like they're following a leader. And then there's another step past that. Are you respecting that team as human beings, right? There's a lot, we just know in life there's people who feel they have a position, they have a boss, they get a little bit of power and suddenly they talk to me, yeah, you don't want to, right?
They feel that they feel that they're better than people. There's no other way to put it, right? So again, now you got your craft, you understand the craft, now you understand the business, you can say the logistics, you understand the business, okay? Now you understand the business, now you are dealing with the team as people, right?
So yeah, you might be the guy that's getting, you might be reading on the morning. Hey, actually, what do you want in your burrito? Yeah, I can make it to, run a little, you know what I'm saying? You're a person first.
What do you know what I mean when you get it cool? All right, thanks, thank you man, appreciate you. All right, on a human level, that makes sense. If you want to go to a business level, there ain't many people in this business that didn't start with getting people burritos.
Can you bear Scott, people with their breakfast burrito? You know what I'm saying? I got people with breakfast, like this is a ground up game. So you can be even selfish about it.
Treating people with respect is a smart play. But that's just, it feels, you know what I'm saying? Some people can do all that. That's just a lot of effort to move through life.
For me when I hear that, I think about coming up with a grand strategy, right? So if I'm relating that to life, life is war. It's the way I look at it, right? We have daily battles.
That's good battles or whether those battles that you're going to get to over for you. And all the time, it's self-war. It's the eternal war that you go through. So I've been deep just on the thought process of the self-wars that we have to go on a daily basis.
So when we go to war, you want to have strategies, right? So what you talked about at first is learning the craft, right? And if you're learning the craft, then you'll be in an observer, right? You're in constant state of study and development of self, right?
And so therefore, you can start to learn the way of, right? So when you learn the tools, you learn the lights, you learn it now, you're learning the way of what it's like to be a director, right? Or if somebody's getting a burrito, it's the way of being an assistant, everything that's comprised to be able to do your job, right? And then you can start to develop a philosophy towards that once you have an understanding.
And that philosophy is your strategy, right? So now you have an ability to say, this is the way I'm going to do things, right? And then you talked about stepping back. So now I'm not doing things from the point where I'm just inside of it.
I want to step back and I want to be able to understand it all, right? What's the history of this? What's the dynamics, right? What's the social settings, right?
What are the implications of what I'm doing? What's the long-term vision for every instance of how react? So once you do that, you take that step back, you can create a campaign, right? So this is moving like a military general, right?
And that's how life is. So I step back, now I create my campaign, I'm going to rent my campaign, I'm going to treat people right. I'm going to treat people with respect, right? I'm going to honor the vision.
I'm going to honor the crowd in the industry that I'm in in. And I'm going to be a servant leader. I'm going to operate with empathy, right? All of this is part of your campaign that you play out in life, right?
So for me, I think about that because stepping back and being the director of your life is being intentional about the outcome of your life versus being tactical on a daily basis, reacting to things that happen, right? You're going to find yourself at your low level. You're never going to get to that high level unless you can be a critical tinker, take a step back, analyze, have a strategy, right? And so when we think about war, we always think of putting in a negative way.
But war is finding a way to get a desired outcome, especially when you are going against opposition, right? And in so much opposition, it can just be competition, right? Or it can be self debt, lack of fear, procrastination, right? Insecurities, those are the self wars that we go through on a daily basis, or even believing that we deserve it, right?
And so those are the things that, when people that have made it from lower levels of where they were just thinking about something to the actualization of it, they had to go through that battle and figure that out. And when you were able to reverse engineer, then you can once, rinse and repeat. And so you can now go to higher levels because what you said was key, you talked about stepping back at least three times. And each time you step in back, you say, OK, I'm in the middle of this, campaign was good for this.
Now I got to step back and see the field again, right? And so every time you step in back, you go into another high level, right? And so I think that that's a great introspection for people to think about their own life because I'm always figuring out, yo, how do I move the main character that is me? How do I use 19 keys?
And let me see if I can fix you because I don't like the way you talk to that person. You know what I'm saying? You're probably not going to make them feel good. You might have hit them with the cold shoulder.
And you might have just been in a bad mood. But they don't go towards your campaign based on how you want to win this war of life, because you have a lot of things that could be against you. What you want to do about you is to fuck. That's what's operating where you have to take your box and form the FBI.
That's what you do. That's what you have to power up. It's what you bring up. There's power that's going on to a rat.
That's what that's what he's doing right now. You're going to the high level. You're going to the high level. The high level tour is, you know, it's a moment in history that we get to think about in Revischand and be a part of.
It doesn't mean proving my thought leadership. This is me implementing the ideas of reinventing the sphere they want to need to win the future right now. and it's an idle conversation.