"I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head"

An artist sits at a high-stakes table where the currency is reputation, time, and soul. Accepting the risk means acknowledging that there is no safety net, no guaranteed audience, and no formula that can reliably transform an interior vision into a public triumph. The poker metaphor is precise: you play with incomplete information, you commit your chips knowing the odds can turn, and you live with the outcome. Courage, not certainty, is the engine.

Choosing to make a film that honestly reflects what lives in the mind is a rejection of bluffing as a creative strategy. Market trends, pleasing gatekeepers, and calculated mimicry promise safer bets, but they also strip away the charge that makes art worth the wager. The commitment is to authenticity as a method and a metric: the film succeeds if it is faithful to the originating spark, regardless of commercial returns. That fidelity demands vulnerability. To reveal an inner world is to risk misunderstanding, indifference, or ridicule, yet the artist accepts those risks as the cost of truth.

There is also an assertion of responsibility. “I take on the risk” clarifies authorship in a medium famed for its collaboration. While dozens of craftspeople shape a film, the initiating vision, its tone, moral center, and sensibility, must be held and defended by someone willing to be accountable when the cards fall.

Honesty in art is not a documentary transcription of thoughts but a coherent translation: images, performances, and rhythms that match the emotional geometry of the artist’s interior life. That translation inevitably involves loss and surprise; the unconscious will surface, collaborators will refract the vision, and chance will intervene. Accepting the game means embracing that uncertainty rather than smoothing it away. The reward, when it works, is communion: a film that feels singular yet strangely familiar to those who watch, as if they, too, recognize the hand that took the risk.