Encourage your kids' artistic side. Toughen up everything else.
Is it really selling out if it feeds your family?
Your children don't have to fear you to respect you.
You know, every movie you make can't be great, no matter who you are.
Children recognize me from Free Willy (1993), and their parents recognize me from Reservoir Dogs (1992). The kids are, like, "There's Glen!" and the parents are, like, "Don't go near that guy!"
I probably made a few pictures I shouldn't have done, but I have four sons and I have to pay the rent. If you have a decision to make about whether or not you can buy groceries at the market or whether or not you're going to make a bad movie, you're going to make a bad movie.