If You Just Work On Your Craft

It's My Experience That Endings Are Never Easy, And I Think I'm Not Alone Among Filmmakers Or Writers In This.

There's Nothing Better Than Having A Collaborator That You Have A Great Shorthand With And A Great Comfort With Who's Shepherding The Project Along. I Mean, That's The Best Thing That Can Happen In Cinema Where There's Many Cooks In The Kitchen.

It's A Closing Of The Mind That Happens When You Want To Be Lazy And Go With The Easiest Answers, Like The Media Do All The Time In Their Sound Bytes.

I Hadn't Made That Movie Before And When I Ever Met The Real Joy Mangano, Which Happened Because De Niro Insisted We Meet Her And Her Father, That's What She Felt Like To Us. She Impressed Us With Her Quiet, Serene Authority With Herself.

That's The Most Beautiful Thing That I Like About Boxing: You Can Take A Punch. The Biggest Thing About Taking A Punch Is Your Ego Reacts And There's No Better Spiritual Lesson Than Trying To Not Pay Attention To Your Ego's Reaction.