At the end of the day, successful box office just means that more people saw what you did and liked it, and that to me is the most important thing. That a lot of people saw it and liked it.
There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.
And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.

