Early rejections are really tough, especially when all of your friends who you went to school with now have legitimate jobs, are getting married, having children, buying real estate, being adults. And you're still trying to figure out how to make a living doing the thing you think you love, but you're not even sure yet because you haven't even done it. It was a long road of risk and treachery.

That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.

It seems to be this hot-bed for these ideas and bringing these groups together. You find that the one thing that everybody has in common, whether they're a teenager who has run away from his parents, or a divorcee who lost her husband, is that they all have in common this feeling of searching for a meaning in their lives.

So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.

A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.

Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.

There are so many filmmakers who are so talented, and actors and writers who work so hard, and it's really hard to let your work enter the world.