He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.
For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.
The step that a lot of people miss is a dispassionate evaluation of the reasons [for rejection]. If you can dispassionately evaluate the reasons for rejection and find them with merit, you can address them; if without merit, you can ignore them.
What unifies every part of my journey is I always lead with my curiosity, obsession, or fascination.
Everyday, it's about building a practice that enables you to try and forget that you're afraid.
'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about.
Hollywood is a land of self-invention.
You never know what life can hand you, but YOU have the choice and power to give back love and kindness in all you do and how you treat others.
I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at another level part them to one side and go, 'I'm doing something completely different here. '
Having the ability to get and gain respect through your work is great but you have to be careful not to get carried away.
An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky man is better off than him. . . He is the one who deserves to be described as happy. But until he is dead, you had better refrain from calling him happy, and just call him fortunate.