There was never any down side to casting friends over professionals. It was always fun seeing folks who never performed before stretching their wings.

AZRAEL: No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air.

Keep your focus on what YOU want to do - not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed.

For years, my job was to make the movie inexpensively. And I could bring it in. What I can't control are the costs of marketing.

One of the reasons I always looked up to [George] Carlin is he looked like your grandfather but, acted like your best friend. Most of the adults in my world were adults and acted like adults and had job-type jobs and bills and pressures and stopped playing a long time ago. And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed. It was odd because he was still sagely and wise. But he was such a role model for me.

Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.

Live a "Why not?" life, man. Take the shot. The shot is always worth taking.