I drew my strength from fear. Fear of losing. I don't remember the games I won, only the games I lost.
They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes
One of the most telling things about film school is you've got a lot of students wandering around saying, "Oh, I wish I could make a movie. I wish I could make a movie. "
In the end, the most important thing to me is that I've raised three kids. I know that'll be the most important accomplishment of my life and it is the most easily obtainable, because all you have to do is pay attention. It is hard work and most people don't realize that's the real gift they are getting in terms of goals and success and accomplishments.
All of my films have been very hard to understand at the script stage because they're very different. At the time I did them they were not conventional. The executives could only think in terms of what they'd already seen. It's hard for them to think in terms of what has never been done before.
You must let go of your past and embrace your future and figure out what path you're going to go down
You can be as rich, and famous, and powerful as you want to be, and it will not bring you happiness. That's said over and over and over, again. It's such a cliché that it hardly needs to be said, but people don't understand that it's actually true.
It's different being afraid when there's the hope it will amount to something.
I was rapping as a hobby. It was something I did for my friends and just played around on ideas and stuff like that.
Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.