Have a strong vision about the story you want to tell and how you want to tell it.

The country is so wounded, bleeding, and hurt right now. The country needs to be healed-it's not going to be healed from the top, politically. How are we going to heal? Art is the healing force.

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that.

I've been very fortunate in that I've had wonderful relationships with people I've worked with.

When people start thinking of you more as a persona, they are less inclined to allow you to move into different areas. Sometimes they're wrong. Sometimes they're just very stereotypical or restricted in their own thinking of what they'll allow you to do.

I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor.