Write more. That's the advice I would give myself.

If 50 percent of your career is not filled with failure, you're not really successful.

I began my career in Los Angeles and started working fairly quickly.

I certainly don't take life lightly. To respect the product that you're using, I think, is very important. I think it does connect you a little bit more.

I don't celebrate birthdays much, except for decade-wise. It's not a really big thing.

Samuel Beckett is the person that I read the most of - certainly the person whose books I own the most of. Probably 800 or 900, maybe 1,000 books of just Samuel Beckett. By him, about him, in different languages, etc. etc. Notebooks of his, letters of his that I own, personal letters - not to me, but I bought a bunch of correspondence of his. I love his humor, and I'm always blown away by his syntax and his ideas. So I keep reading those.

I have 800 books of just Samuel Beckett's work, tons of his correspondence, personal letters that he wrote. I have copies of plays he used when he directed, so all of his handwritten notes are in the corners of the page.