Last saturday I was in Milan and I had the opportunity to attend the public meeting with Terry Gilliam, former Monty Python and today visionary film director. He was the main guest of Milano Film Festival.

When someone from the audience asked which is the secret of his success he answered that luck and fate had an important role in his career. But what made the difference was his decision of not working for money. He said that this gave him the freedom he wanted and, moreover, working for money means getting tired of the work you’re doing. Only working for the sake of creativity and fantasy gives him the necessary thrill to make his movies.

In my mind I immediately thought about his statements in relation to the blogging thing. Bloggers are free and creative because they don’t get money from their passion. Maybe it’s banal, but it sort of hit me.