I'm In The Worst Place You Can

Persia Is Very Different From The Arab Middle East In Terms Of Architecture And Language. Even Though We Think Of Them As One Big Middle Eastern Area, In Truth, Persia's Quite Distinct.

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

The Value Of Work, And Of Always Learning Something New, And What It Takes To Achieve Excellence. I Really Believe In Those Things That You Have To Dedicate Yourself And Spend Time, That Excellence Is Elusive. It's A Little Maddening, To Try To Have That Level Of Discipline In Your Life, And I Don't Succeed All The Time. But I Do Try.

God Help Me If I Ever Do Another Movie With An Explosion In It. If You See Me In A Movie Where Stuff Is Exploding You'll Know I've Lost All My Money.

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.