Material comes all kinds of ways, and it's never a question of a lack of material or a lack of projects - I have tons of projects. The issue is to convince someone to give you the money. And it's a very different business than it was just 8 years ago.
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
What I finally did in 1995 was I said, I'm going to get out of this town and I'm going to go out West.

