One of the hardest parts of becoming a parent, for me, was that the things that used to give my life meaning suddenly became much harder to pursue. Making films became harder, of course. There was less time, less energy, more responsibilities. That part was expected. What I didn't expect was that I would also lose access to the things that fueled my creativity in the first place. At the end of the day, I was often too exhausted to watch the kinds of films I loved. The long, demanding, thought-provoking movies that had shaped me as an artist. The movies that made me want to create. I remember thinking: if I no longer have the energy to make films, and I no longer have the energy to be nourished by them either, then what exactly is left? I think that question was at the heart of a lot of my struggles. Because it felt like I had just lost access to the very thing that used to give my life meaning. Parenthood hadn't taken away my desire to create. But it had changed the conditions under which I had learned to create, and I didn't yet know how to adapt. That took me a long time to figure out. And in some ways, I still am. At some point, I realized that if I couldn't go back to the conditions that once gave my life meaning, then I had to redefine what meaning looked like from where I was. And I think that was the beginning of the shift.