"I wouldn't call it an addiction. But the truth is, when you join a team as a new professional you encounter a system. As a young rider, older riders let you know how the business works."

“[Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism.”

“Destructive Failure: Reveals limitations and weakness, highlights your shortcomings and when not processed correctly, keeps you feeling inadequate and defective. Productive failure: Reveals limitations and weakness, highlights your erroneous thinking and when processed correctly, leads you to better options and keeps you dependent on the Lord.”

Source : June Hunt (2013). “Success Through Failure (June Hunt Hope for the Heart)”, p.10, Aspire Press

“Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land, where the notes are read and then possibly cherished, or else misinterpreted, or else understood all too well by those who hate the message. You never know who your readers might be.”

“I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.”

“Although our "gentle air" cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All is compromise; caution and refinement are everywhere. Everything has to "make a good impression" - whether or not it is any good: the impression is the main thing.”

Source : Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.196, Univ of California Press

“Los Angeles is a great place. Where else can you smell the air and see it coming at you at the same time.”

“Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.”

“Lotus Eaters is a movie about people who can't really be alone, but they're always alone, really, even when they're together.”