The hardest lesson I've had to learn in my life is that my intelligence is inversely correlated to my humility. The more I thought I knew, the less I actually knew.
Tucker MaxI started writing because it was about making my friends laugh, and when you're talking to your friends, you can't bullshit.
Tucker MaxWhat people who don't create don't understand, is that once you take money from the machine, the machine [movie industry] owns you.
Tucker MaxIt is hard for me to be vulnerable, because I never learned how to do that. I was never vulnerable in a safe way.
Tucker MaxOne big lesson I learned from movie [making] was I don't do creative projects that I headline unless I have all the control. I can't deal with having to live with other people's screw ups, and that's just sort of the way the movie business works. The people with the money are in charge. Until I'm in charge, I don't want to play that game.
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