I've never even done a residency.
It takes nothing to encourage an artist.
Im gonna try to pay for CLERKS III myself. As much as I love the crowd-funding model, thats an advancement in indie film that belongs to the next generation of artists. I started on my own dime, and if Im allowed, I should finish on my own dime.
Live a "Why not?" life, man. Take the shot. The shot is always worth taking.
Keep your focus on what YOU want to do - not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed.
I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.
In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life.
The American public is somewhat ambivalent about what they expect out of thenational forest.
Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me.
A reformer should be exempt from the suspicion of interest, and he must possess the confidence and esteem of those whom he proposes to reclaim.
Life's too short to eat anywhere else.