There's a difference between failures and things that are bad.

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.

All human interaction, you can break it down to incentives. All relationships, at some level, are transactional. They're fascinated with incentives.

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

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

If I'm a director and I read a script and I say yeah I really want to do this, I would never walk away because the deal wasn't very good - that I wasn't getting paid very much or that the chances that I would see anything on the back end were remote because of the financial waterfall and the way it's structured. I would never use that as a reason not to do something.

The traditional models for success are just also disappearing.