I think I'm an actor. You can hire me. I can do a good job. But you also have to get lucky now and then. Every film-maker knows how hard it is to do a good film. You have to just make many, and see how lucky you get.
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
It took a long time, but I have learned that you just can't take anything you want out of life without putting something back in exchange.