To the brilliant filmmakers who face rejection over and over and keep asking themselves why, your talent is not defined by someone else's 'no.' Some souls, like yours, are born with a frequency too rare for the world to recognize right away. You didn’t just come to make films. You came to rewrite what stories mean.
You didn’t come to play the game. You came to change it. And that’s a lonely road.
People don’t know what to do with brilliance when it’s wrapped in truth instead of performance.
With rawness instead of polish. With depth instead of trend. So the world… delays.
It ignores. It resists. Not because you’re unworthy.
But because your very existence is a disruption to mediocrity, conformity, and illusion.
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Maria Johnsen, this is so beautifully said. Your words really hit at something deep that so many filmmakers and writers experience but rarely hear articulated. It’s hard to keep showing up when the world doesn’t immediately recognize what you’re building, but messages like this are a powerful reminder that forging a new path takes time, and that real impact is often felt long after.