One advantage of getting older is knowing when to worry.
Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away and other things begin to emerge and you take way bigger risks.
The only way you can really deal with creative people is with very loose reins.
I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.
Everybody blows their first money.
Even the most powerful people at a given point in terms of class, will all play by the same rules.