做自己

蔡明亮和侯孝賢日前對金馬的評語皆為：做自己。臺灣很需要如此的穩定意志。

其實這幾年想法也是如此。事事不可能讓每個人都滿意，只能盡量做到自己當下滿意而已，不足之處，未來繼續加油。如果知道自己在做什麼，便不要過度在意觀眾或大眾評語。評得有理的，其實自己心裡也知道，再努力調整也就是了。

很喜歡作曲家 Philip Glass 曾說的一段話：

I never was a captive of other people's ideas about me. Whatever they thought, that didn't bother to me, I did what I wanted to, and um - I didn't care. I've been like that my whole life, and - it saved me a lot of trouble. Even when it came to writing music I didn't care what people thought. You know, there's a lot of music in the world, you don't have to listen to mine. There's Mozart, there's the Beatles, listen to something else! You don't have to listen to this. You have my blessings, go on, listen to something else, I don't care.

我從來不受他人對我的看法所左右。他們怎麼想不會影響我。我做我想做的，嗯──意思就是我不在意。其實我這一輩子都如此──省下我不少麻煩。就算是寫音樂也一樣，我不在意別人怎麼想。你知道，世界上有許多音樂，你不需要來聽我的作品。有莫扎特、有披頭四，去聽別人的作品！你不需要聽我的。我全心支持你，去吧，去聽別的作品，我不在意。

乍看下好似有些狂妄，但其實似乎是創作唯一的一條路。知道自己在做什麼，然後堅持下去。有成果自然高興，沒有成果也不枉這場人生。