I was a very wanting child.
Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.
Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.
You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.
You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own choices, your relationships, your jobs, your friends, where you live, what you studied in college, that you went to college at all. . . If that happens, you're doing it right.
Great stories happen to those who can tell them.
I will not lose, for even in defeatThere's a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me
A Complicated Kindness is just that: funny and strange, spellbinding and heartbreaking, this novel is a complicated kindness from a terrifically talented writer.
My biggest satisfaction is always when I make something beautiful and well-done that I can see on a real man or woman - not only in the glossy magazines.
It is easier to develop the mind through meditation than it is just through athletic practice. If you put the two together, it will be unbelievable.