It's So Hard For Every Young Person,

The Thing That Really Breeds Career Longevity In This Profession Is Doing Good Work. You Can Make $20 Million A Movie, But Does That Mean You'll Still Have A Job When You're 60? It's A Profession That Eats People Up And Wants Constant Turnaround, So You Have To Dedicate Yourself To Learning And Making The Most Of Whatever Gift You May Have.

Friends Can Hurt You, But The Possibility Of Pain With Lovers Is So Much Greater Because Your Expectations Are So High. You Don't Ask As Much Of Your Friends.

I Was Being Taken Around By A Press Agent At The Venice Film Festival At Age 18. Was It Fun? Sure. But It Was A Dangerous Path To Be Walking On As Far As Having A Substantive Life. Because The Casualty Rate At The Venice Film Festival For 18-year-olds? High.

One Of The Things That Separates A Good Genre Movie From A Bad Genre Movie, I Always Think, Ironically, Is When You Care About The People. The Dime A Dozen Ones Are Where You Don't Have Any Awareness Of The Character.

Some People Burn Out, And Some People Like Clint Eastwood, He Was A Wild, International Movie Star In His 30s, And He's Doing The Best Work Of His Life Now. Go Figure.