You got to deal with reviews the same way you deal with your views, which I a long time ago stopped reading because the point is if you believe the good ones you have to believe the bad ones. It's kind of all or nothing.

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.

Your take on things is what is either going to make you somebody people talk about or no.

A Movie That Costs Only $1.6 Million Doesn't Have to Be a Cultural Event to Turn a Profit.

You're being mean to someone who's helping you. What is that? Everyone knows who the assholes are, and I avoid them.

I'm not going to spend two years of my life on something that I'm not excited about.