Comment devient-on une bonne histoire ? | Nathalie Sejean | TEDxReims
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0:22 - 0:24Ten years ago, I quit my job as a bookseller
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0:24 - 0:25I packed my luggage
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0:25 - 0:28and I left Paris to live in Los Angeles.
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0:30 - 0:32I didn’t know anyone there
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0:32 - 0:33but I knew that I wanted
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0:33 - 0:34to make movies
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0:34 - 0:38so it made sense to go to Hollywood.
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0:39 - 0:40I came back to France
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0:40 - 0:42after a few years
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0:42 - 0:44and when people would ask me:
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0:44 - 0:46: “What do you do in life?”
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0:46 - 0:47I would reply:
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0:47 - 0:49: “I’m a filmmaker. I make movies.
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0:49 - 0:53Actually, I’m just back from a few years in Los Angeles.”
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0:53 - 0:57I would oftentimes see a little sparkle
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0:57 - 0:58in their eyes as they'd say:
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0:58 - 0:59“That’s amazing!
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0:59 - 1:00What type of films do you direct?
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1:00 - 1:01Can we see them at the movie theatre?
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1:01 - 1:04Have you worked with famous people?”
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1:05 - 1:06And I would reply:
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1:06 - 1:07: “I direct mostly fiction.
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1:07 - 1:09You can’t watch my films at the movie theatre
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1:09 - 1:10- not yet.
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1:10 - 1:14And no...no, I haven’t worked with anyone famous.”
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1:15 - 1:16At that moment
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1:16 - 1:17there would be a silence
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1:17 - 1:19long enough for their enthusiasm
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1:19 - 1:20to go down a few inches
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1:20 - 1:21And then,
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1:21 - 1:24we would keep on talking about Los Angeles.
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1:26 - 1:27Little by little,
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1:27 - 1:29tired of seeing people’s reaction
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1:29 - 1:33going from curious to disappointed
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1:33 - 1:35when they would realize
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1:35 - 1:36that I was a “wannabe”,
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1:36 - 1:41I started lying about what I was doing.
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1:41 - 1:42I stopped saying
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1:42 - 1:43“I’m a filmmaker”
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1:43 - 1:46to say “I work as a freelance.”
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1:47 - 1:49I stopped saying
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1:49 - 1:53to say “I make videos for clients.”
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1:53 - 1:55It sounded less dreamy
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1:55 - 1:57but it was useful and practical.
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1:57 - 1:58We would talk about how to find clients,
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1:58 - 2:00how to bill them, about gear.
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2:00 - 2:03And more importantly,
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2:03 - 2:04I stopped feeling like
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2:04 - 2:08like I had to apologize for my lack of success.
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2:08 - 2:10I began to feel a bit weird about it though
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2:10 - 2:11, so I asked myself
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2:11 - 2:14“Why do you lie about what you do?
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2:14 - 2:15And why do you feel
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2:15 - 2:18feel compelled to diminish people's expectations
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2:18 - 2:22so they won’t think you’ve failed?”
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2:23 - 2:25It’s at that point that I really started
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2:25 - 2:26to become interested
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2:26 - 2:28about the concept of “success”
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2:28 - 2:30and how it has evolved
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2:30 - 2:32in the last few years,
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2:32 - 2:35especially with the social medias’ arrival in our lives
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2:35 - 2:36that remind us daily
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2:36 - 2:38how we rank on the graph of success
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2:38 - 2:41compared to the other 8 billion.
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2:43 - 2:45This ranking on the “success graph”
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2:45 - 2:46explains why sometimes,
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2:46 - 2:48when we talk with people,
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2:48 - 2:50a contest starts
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2:50 - 2:53to find out who has the most impact.
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2:53 - 2:55It’s conveyed through innocent words:
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2:55 - 2:56“I know X person”
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2:56 - 2:58“X number of people follow me”
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2:58 - 3:00“I travelled through X number of countries”,
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3:00 - 3:02“I was a speaker at X event”.
- Title:
- Comment devient-on une bonne histoire ? | Nathalie Sejean | TEDxReims
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- Video Language:
- French
- Team:
- closed TED
- Project:
- TEDxTalks
- Duration:
- 17:20
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