“I always wanted to find a way to be a good mother and have a career, and it has not been easy. It’s a really hard balance to strike, and it’s a constantly moving target as your kids are growing and need different things from you”
Photo: Lauren Tamaki Lynn Novick has been making Emmy Award–winning documentaries about American history for more than two decades. With her producing partner, filmmaker Ken Burns, she’s tackled Prohibition, the Vietnam War, baseball, the Civil War, jazz music, and more.
Then I have coffee and look at the paper a little bit, maybe look at my email, which can be a black hole. And then go into the office. We’re always at different stages of the projects we’re working on, so it might be meetings or phone calls, it might be a shoot or planning for one, it might be digesting reel that we’ve already filmed or working with an editor on a cut.
I will say that I think sometimes that was difficult for some of our colleagues to feel like I didn’t quite know what to do. And I often felt that way. You have to have the confidence to say “I don’t know if this is going to work, but this is what we’re going to try.”One of the great joys of the kind of work we do is that it’s so collaborative. You get in this creative space and you’re really operating on a different level than you thought you could. I couldn’t get there on my own, I know that.
But I always wanted to find a way to be a good mother and have a career, and it has not been easy. It’s a really hard balance to strike, and it’s a constantly moving target as your kids are growing and need different things from you. My mother went back to school and developed a very successful career when I was in middle school, and I was always frustrated with her that she never said it was going to be hard.
When my kids grew up and left home, I felt a terrible void, and was really depressed and unhappy with that loss. It took me a while, but I did fill that void to some degree with work. I do work longer hours, and I travel more, and I have more energy and focus to put into work, but I don’t think work should fill the entire void. I’m divorced, and I have a wonderful partner who I live with and our lives are shared. My life is not all work.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
‘God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya’ Wins Arab Critics’ Award for European Films“God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya,” a satirical drama by Macedonian director Teona Strugar Mitevska, has won the inaugural Arab Critics’ Award for European Films. The film, which positions itself a…
Read more »
Women Dominated the 2020 Grammy Award NominationsWomen Dominated the 2020 Grammys Nominations
Read more »
Taylor Swift Fans Are Theorizing What Her American Music Award Dress Could MeanTaylor Swift Fans Are Theorizing What Her American Music Awards Dress Could Mean
Read more »
Taylor Swift puts rancor aside, smashes all-time American Music Award recordTaylor Swift took the high road as she won six American Music Awards on Sunday t...
Read more »
Taylor Swift Accepts AMA ‘Artist Of The Decade’ Award Without Dragging Former LabelIf you were expecting Taylor Swift to slam Scooter Braun, Scott Borchetta and Big Machine Label Group at the American Music Awards on Sunday night, then you will be disappointed. The pop sensation …
Read more »
Taylor Swift Accepts AMA Award, No Mention of Scooter Braun or Big MachineTaylor Swift could not have been more gracious accepting the AMA 'Artist of the Decade' award ... and there wasn't a peep about her old songs, Big Machine or Scooter Braun.
Read more »