I just think there's something in the non-fiction form that allows you to see things clearly, if you're patient.

Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter

I was working on other things and I wanted to make a film, and I had some ideas brewing in my head. Brandy's [ Burre] circumstance was such that I didn't really know what was going to happen. That was obviously a surprise, but I knew she was in her mid-to-late thirties and she was starting to really think about her life in a way that really appealed to me, appealed to the women that I know in my life.

Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

When you raise your opinion of yourself and what you are capable of it has a decided influence on what you do.

Things like reading a book or learning a language, or taking a walk - they're not stimulating. Your mind has to sort of learn how to deal with that kind of stimulation on its own. So that's a very important form of adversity.