I had a real good thing going for me, and I got sidetracked. It doesn't have to be that way. It doesn't have to be drugs. It doesn't have to be alcohol. That part of my life is over.
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.
Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.

