Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.
For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.