If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.

You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.

You can give a great film idea to a mediocre team and they may screw it up, but if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will turn it into a great film.

If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.

Success hides problems...you don't need to address problems.

Creativity doesn't follow titles. It just comes from where it comes from.

It's pretty popular today to say that everybody should learn to fail and that failure's a good thing. Intellectually, it's an obvious thing. But in fact, it gets conflated with another meaning of failure, so when we grow up as kids, failing in school was a really bad thing.