What Did He Exactly Mean?

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1. "Try to incline yourself upwards as much possible because it is too easy in this world to incline yourself downwards." - Especially what's the meaning of "incline" here?

2. "I plead guilty to the accusation of working with people again and again. That's the goal, to create an artistic circle that works. If you look at any period of art, that's really exploding, it's people collaborating again and again." - Did he imply it's important to work with people? What does the word “exploding" refer to?

3. "Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process." - I don't quite get the meaning of this sentence. How to understand the expression of "made a window" ?

4. "It's beyond my control who's gonna cast me or how you're gonna be pigeonholed." - The expression of "be pigeonholed" here means to be ignored or to be chosen for one type of a certain role or what.

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niceann"Try to incline yourself upwards as much possible because it is too easy in this world to incline yourself downwards." - Especially what's the meaning of "incline" here?

I've never heard "incline" used in such a way. I have no idea what they mean here.

niceann2. "I plead guilty to the accusation of working with people again and again. That's the goal, to create an artistic circle that works. If you look at any period of art, that's really exploding, it's people collaborating again and again." -

The passage is not grammatical English. Art periods are in the history of art, and they cannot be "exploding" in the present. Perhaps they meant this:

If you look at any period of art, (no comma) that was really exploding, it was because people were collaborating ~~again and again.~~ (Collaborate does not refer to a countable activity; it is an ongoing activity.)

Exploding means to be very popular all of a sudden.

niceann3. "Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process." - I don't quite get the meaning of this sentence. How to understand the expression of "made a window" ?

I suppose the artist means that they have found a niche in which they feel comfortable. "Make a window" is not what a native speaker would say.

niceann4. "It's beyond my control who's gonna cast me or how you're gonna be pigeonholed." - The expression of "be pigeonholed" here means to be ignored or to be chosen for one type of a certain role or what.

It means that people will label you as a certain type, able to play only one particular role, or do one particular thing well, and you will never be able to convince them that you can be or do something different.

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