I was kind of the black sheep with the Disney kids. I was uninterested in making friends with most of them. I didn't really fall into 'the Disney mold.' I was more or less the kid hanging out with the crew members and got along with them far better.
I was able to be influential and create a mold. There was no one else who was shaped like me or looked like me.
There are some films that really break the mold, and some films that don't. I've been looking for films that break the mold a bit.
You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.
Oswald Chambers writes, ‘Never make a principle out of your experience; let God be as original with other people as He is with you.’ To that I would add, ‘Be careful not to turn others’ lives into the mold for your own.’ Allow God to be as creative with you as He is with each of us.
When someone gets closely related to a character they play on TV, it's very hard to break that mold and go on to do something else.
What is now commonplace was once not, and I think that's a testament to what it means to really break the mold and push the limits.
In many ways I just did not fit the mold of a 1970s high tech innovator. I was not white, I was not working for the military or for a defense contractor, and I must have seemed too young and too naive to stand up for the truth.
I don't think you get many chances to break the mold of who you are.
Within the songwriting community, there are these unwritten rules for the way that a song should be written in country music, and I think that those rules are constantly being broken over the years, and the molds change and the process is evolving.
