People Tend To Romanticize This Job. So,

Im Gonna Try To Pay For Clerks Iii Myself. As Much As I Love The Crowd-funding Model, Thats An Advancement In Indie Film That Belongs To The Next Generation Of Artists. I Started On My Own Dime, And If Im Allowed, I Should Finish On My Own Dime.

In Hollywood You Kind Of Fail Upwards

You Can Have 10 Bucks To 10 Million Bucks And If You Got A Crew, Imagination And A Lot Of People Willing To Turn In Some Work Next To Nothing, You Going To Have A Feature. But You Can't Get Beyond How Expensive Marketing The Movie Is, It's So Crushing.

Everybody's Got One Killer Story. It Doesn't Take Talent To Tell That Story, It Just Takes Experience.

It's Not Like Someday My Kid's Gonna Be Standing Over My Grave, And Somebody's Gonna Hang Her A Folded Flag And Say, "you Know What? This Is 'cause He Did 24 Hours Straight On Twitter." But It's Just One Of Those Little Personal Victories, Like, "i Wonder If I Can Do This." And I Did It. A Stupid Goal, But I Accomplished It. Life's All About...for Me, At Least...having Very Stupid Achievable Goals. That Way, You Always Feel Like A Winner.