You Can't Control Everything That Comes To

Sometimes Creativity Is A Compulsion, Not An Ambition.

I Never Even Considered Comedy Genre As Something To Embrace Or Move Away From.

When You're Working On A Creative Thing, Everyone Has An Idea, And They're Pushing It. The First Time You Work With Anybody, You Have To Get Comfortable With The Way Another Person Pushes Hard For What They Want.

If You Try To Make Interesting Films, You're Going To Be Disappointed Most Of The Time. I Choose Just Not To Look At It That Way. I Don't Look At American History X As A Failure, Or Fight Club As A Failure, Or 25th Hour As A Failure, Or Larry Flynt As A Failure, Or Any Of The Movies That I Care About That I've Made That Were Not Immediately Successful. I'll Stand With Those Movies Any Day Over 90 Percent Of The Movies That Came Out At The Same Time That Made A Hundred Million Dollars

I Think One Of The Most Important Investments An Organization Like Tnc (the Nature Conservancy) Can Make Is In Helping Build Local Capacity - Supporting The Growth Of A Global Network Of Small Community-based Entities. Help People Who Live Within Critical Ecosystems Help Themselves And Their Neighbors To Design A Better Future Relationship Between Themselves And Their Natural Resources.