Before, I would read as many self-help books as possible and go like, ‘I must fix this!’ But alchemy costs things. You can’t transform without letting something die.”
Chloe Zhao
Filmmaker Chloe Zhao has enjoyed huge success, helming movies like Nomadland (2020) and Eternals (2021), but she says that it has come at a cost. Speaking to Sir Sam Mendes at a screening of Hamnet in London, the filmmaker, 43, said, “It does cost something. Only now in my 40s, I’ve come to terms [with it].
Before, I would read as many self-help books as possible and go like, ‘I must fix this!’ But alchemy costs things. You can’t transform without letting something die.”
Zhao feels it’s difficult to balance a successful career with a happy family life. She said, “I used to think that you can have it all, that you could be summer all the time. I hate winter — things die and compost. But now I realise, you have to let something die. In the film [Hamnet] we tried to talk about [how] we live in a culture that didn’t teach us how to let go of things.”
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