You Get Old, You Slow

It's Much Nicer To Be Praised Than To Be Damned. But You Have To Have A Certain Sense Of Your Own Priorities And Ideas About What Works And What Doesn't Because Otherwise, If You're Just Looking For Eternal Validation All The Time, You Can Be Motivated By The Wrong Things And I Don't Think It's As Personally Satisfying In Your Own Work.

A Friend Of My Mom's Was A Casting Director So, Really As Kind Of A Lark, I Had A Couple Of Acting Jobs That Had Just Enough Exposure To Give Me The Option To Continue If I Wanted To. I Followed Through With It.

No Matter What You're Doing, If You're Trying To Make A Movie, You Need To Be Working With People That Are Really Good And Who Make You Better.

(as) A Director Who Is A Writer, I Have Respect For Writers, So I'm Less Likely To Step On An Idea Or A Line.

When You Are In Your 20s And You're Not Married With Kids, You're Having Fun. But When You're In Your 30s And You're Not Married And Don't Have Kids, You Begin To Develop A Peter Pan Complex. As You Grow Older, You Have More Responsibilities And You Have To Step Up To Them.