Animation producer inspires

Don Hahn can get anyone’s creative juices flowing.

Hahn, an animation producer, was one of last week’s guests at the Sarasota Film Festival during its “In Conversation With ...” series. He was like a fountain of creative inspiration, with an underlying message of if your creativity doesn’t succeed, try again. And again. It will eventually lead to “the good stuff,” he said.

A lot of what he said still lingers in my mind. Like the phrase he chooses to live by: “Impression without expression = depression.”

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Find out more in my column Sunday.

- January Holmes