Dinner with Marshall Curry was a spectacular event, filled with his anecdote on how he came to where he is today. He seemed to have discovered his love for filmmaking accidentally, with no real clear path of what he wanted to become in life or what he wanted to do after college. After his first film, Street Fight, which took him many trials and errors,  for which got nominated for an Academy Award, he continued his newfound love of making documentaries. His large variety in films is credited to the fact that his ideas come to him and his opportunities to film comes randomly. He said that his film on the Earth Liberation Front came to him when his wife had told him that someone from her workplace had been arrested for terrorism, and when he heard it the first thing he wanted to do was make a film on it.

Having dinner with someone so accomplished, yet so humble, inspired me to look at life more calmly and let opportunities come to me. It made me learn not to freak out over small things that happen and to work hard to get to where I want.