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I've Never Held Myself Up Particularly High When I Had Movies That Worked, And I Never Held Myself All That Low When I Had Failures.

It Was A Dreamlike Time For Me From December 1997 To March Of '98. Before That, I Was Basically Unknown. Then, Bang! The Starting Gun Fired, And Everybody Just Started Running. It Was Learn-on-the-job. And There Were More Opportunities For Work Than I Had Time To Do Them.

It's Been Reinforced To Me, And It's A Little Cliche, But I've Learned That You Can't Make A Movie That Even Works, Much Less That's Good, Without Really Good Writing And Really Good Acting. That Lesson Has Led Me To Not Be Distracted, So Much, By The Other Stuff Going On In Filmmaking And To Focus On The Essence Of A Story, And The Words And The Events And The Way That Those Are Interpreted By The Actors. That Philosophy Has Taken Me To A Place That I Really Like.

You Wasted $150,000 On An Education You Could Have Got For A Buck Fifty In Late Charges At The Public Library.

There Are Two Things For A Marriage To Be Good. One Is To Work Hard On It. The Other One Is To Marry Above You. And I Succeeded At Both Of Those.