Overcoming the Odds

Three Rules

Matt D'Avella

Education, Self-improvement

4.9 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2017

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Chris Newhard is an award-winning filmmaker and director of photography. He's also one of my closest friends. I sat down with him to talk about his work, some of his early struggles and what it was like working on massive projects with acts like Sia.

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0:00.0	Being a freelance artist is more about controlling yourself than getting work.
0:06.0	That's Chris Newhart, cinematographer, filmmaker, and musician.
0:09.0	His videos have been viewed by millions of people, and he's here to share how he got started.
0:15.0	I realized then that I was not in control, you know?
0:20.0	We discuss his early struggles.
0:23.6	When you put it like that, all in one sentence.
0:26.2	Yeah.
0:26.8	It sounds like you're at rock bottom.
0:28.7	I found that rock bottom's not a bad place when you got friends there.
0:32.8	How he sets his priorities and his definition of making it.
0:37.5	You will never make it. There is no it. There is only the journey.
0:43.0	This is the ground up show. I have with me an accomplished filmmaker, one of my best friends, and apparently he's a rock star as well.
1:06.7	As I saw last night, Chris Newhart is on the show.
1:09.6	Yes.
1:11.4	Tell me a little about what happened last night.
1:14.2	That was my first time seeing a live show.
1:17.0	I've always known that you've been a musician, but I haven't actually seen you.
1:21.6	Right.
1:22.2	Well, usually you cancel when I invite you.
1:24.5	Yeah.
1:25.3	Dude, I'm an old man now.
1:26.8	I get to bed really early, and I value you. Yeah. Dude, I'm an old man now. I get to bed really early and I value Netflix and chill.
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