Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
Save your money. You're going to need twice as much money in your old age as you think.
I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.
If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.
I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.
Wherever I live, if there isn't a restaurant I want to go to of a certain type, then I open it. That's all. For selfish reasons.