I'm not an overly ambitious person; I don't feel like I have to excel.
Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires.
The brave forget. It is those who fought less bravely, or those who fought without justice and live in fear of their victory, who forget the least.
The trivial round, the common task,Would furnish all we ought to ask.
3D is not a fire and forget tool. It takes a lot of very careful consideration and it will change your approach to where you put the camera so 3D isn't for everybody.
A writer like me must have an utter confidence, an utter faith in his star. It's an almost mystical feeling, a feeling of nothing-can-happen-to me, nothing-can-touch-me. . . . I once had it. But through a series of blows, many of them my own fault, something happened to that sense of immunity and I lost my grip.