People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.

Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter

Only your hearts be frolic, for the time Craves that we taste of naught but jouissance.

In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it's bad attention.

Hangs in the uncertain balance of proud time.

Movie theaters barely make any money. A movie can make a couple of thousand dollars, or could get lucky and make ten or fifteen thousand dollars, but theatrical releases don't really sustain the work. For me, it's the best sort of advertisement for anything else you'd want to do.

Be wary of friends—they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.