The grey mare is the better horse.
A director can come from anywhere, but having a story background, if you have nothing else, is probably a good thing to have because it's really the one tool you need.
There's some real dark days where you just feel like the story is falling apart in every one. Just keep moving forward, even when you are bluffing, even when you don't quite know what is going to happen next.
I was an animator for a while early on, but a 2D animator.
No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.
A lot of times, people say that if you work hard and never give up, it will always work out, which is a great message. However, that's not always the case.
I'm not really a horror movie fan.
Most people see what they want to, or at least what they expect to.
When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experiences of nearly forty years at sea, I merely say uneventful. I have never been in an accident of any sort worth speaking about. . . . I never saw a wreck and have never been wrecked, nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort.
Think, just blink and I made. . . a million rhymes. Just imagine if you blinked. . . a million times. Damn, I'd be paid. . . I got it made.
The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.