Masterclass based on Michael Madsen dubious ability to follow his own universal creative rules:

§1: Start a project only if you do not know its results under any circumstances.

§2: Allow yourself to be hysterical cynical in recognition that the only audience you need to satisfy is yourself: what would really interest you to see?

§3: In case of doubt regarding the above, always choose the steps that make you most nervous as these steps will contain the most for yourself – but therefore also in relation to any audience beyond yourself.

§4: Understand, that to narrate equals to assume responsibility as it is ultimately a way of folding into and out of the world – why all phases and aspects of this existential endeavour always also has value in themselves.

§5: Protect the incomprehensible in your project, i.e. the mysterious in your project by understanding your work with these forces as an act of discovery.

§6: Bother, of course, only the world with something the world never before has come to know – and thus gain freedom from all kinds of evaluation that do not originate from yourself.

§7: Always make the last project of your life first.

§8: Because any work of art stems from your sensibility in the broadest possible understanding, you must protect your work by always letting curiosity and boldness drive the work.

§9: Take time off not much more often, but significantly more often.

§10: Formulate a paragraph for your work that you never for any person will ever reveal:

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