I've never been satisfied or ...

I\'ve never been satisfied or even pleased with a film that I\'ve done. I make them, I\'m finished, I\'ve never looked at one after. I don\'t like them because there\'s a big gap between what you conceive in your mind when you\'re writing and you don\'t have to meet the test of reality. You\'re home, you write and it\'s funny and beautiful and romantic and dramatic, and then you have to show up on a cold morning, and you don\'t have enough of this and this goes wrong and you make the wrong choice on something and you screwed up and you can\'t go back.
I've never been satisfied or even pleased with a film that I've done. I make them, I'm finished, I've never looked at one after. I don't like them because there's a big gap between what you conceive in your mind when you're writing and you don't have to meet the test of reality. You're home, you write and it's funny and beautiful and romantic and dramatic, and then you have to show up on a cold morning, and you don't have enough of this and this goes wrong and you make the wrong choice on something and you screwed up and you can't go back.

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Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.
It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.