About one of the topics of her movie “Marie Antoinette,” director Sofia Coppola once commented, “You’re considered superficial and silly if you are interested in fashion, but I think you can be substantial and still be interested in frivolity.”
One way many talented people can be self-critical is to judge their wide-ranging serial interests as superficial or insubstantial.
Some interests can be trivial or frivolous, of course, but many can fuel creativity.
[By the way, Milena Canonero won an Academy Award in 2007 for Best Achievement in Costume Design on “Marie Antoinette.”]
Continued: Sofia Coppola on being a “dilettante” and enhancing creativity
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