"Write for yourself. Make the art for yourself. And in doing that, you will be making the art for others. But you can't really make it for the audience. You don't know what they want. They don't know what they want. And then he quoted Steve Jobs as saying, 'The customer doesn't know what they want, until you show it to them.'"

Today’s episode was ripped directly from one of our 10,000 NOs Working Actors Community weekly zooms where Matt addresses the challenges that face our members. Today, we discuss how it's important to let our art be an expression of where we are at in the moment. If we focus too much on the audience, the marketplace, etc we can lose the authenticity of what we are creating. You don't always know what the audience wants and as Matt mentions, they often don't either.

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