Sometimes Getting Upset With Yourself Is Necessary

There Is A Way That A Younger Person Can Accept The Inevitable Problem That They're Going To Die, Whereas Somebody A Little Bit Older Might Be Overcome.

A Lot Of Times, I Relied On Connections Through My Agency, Just For Financing And Things Like That. Even When I'm Looking For A Million And A Half Dollars To Do A Small Film, There Can Always Be Hold-ups, Because It's A Large Amount Of Money For Some People, And It's A Small Amount Of Money For Other People. In Any Case, It's Significant Enough To Where You Have To Jump Through A Lot Of Hoops To Get It To Happen. Sometimes, The People Who Are Helping You Can Drop The Ball. And, Of Course, The Reason Agents Want You To Do Bigger Projects Is That They Make A Bigger Cut.

It's Easy To Keep Score At A Football Game Because It's Just How Many Times You Get The Ball Over The Goal. But, When You Ask An Audience To Tell Us How Many Times The Invisible Ball Got Over The Invisible Goal, And They Go, "well, It Was 46," They're Just Making It Up. So, If You're Listening To That, As Though You're Actually Listening To The Score Of A Football Game, You're Misleading Yourself.

I'd Come Into Filmmaking As A Painter So, For Me, Making 'good Will Hunting' Was Experimental Because I Didn't Know How To Do It.

Usually When I Read Something, First Of All I'm Looking For The Story And Then When I Reread It, I'm Sort Of Checking Every Part Of It To See If Every Scene Is Necessary.