You have to be willing to be poor and invisible until you’re forty, and during that time, you only make the work you want to make, only take the jobs that give you the most creative freedom. You say no to everything else. You do not compromise yourself. Least of all for something as stupid as money. If you do this, by the time you’re forty, you will have a body of work that is absolutely who you are. And you will start to be recognized for it. It will pay off. It will be worth it.
