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But Failure Has To Be An Option In Art And In Exploration - Because It's A Leap Of Faith. And No Important Endeavor That Required Innovation Was Done Without Risk. You Have To Be Willing To Take Those Risks.

Action Is A Way Of Externalizing An Emotional State. You Might Not Be Running, Leaping, Climbing And Doing All That. But, The Way You Create That Emotional State In A Movie Is By Having The Characters Have Physical Jeopardy That They Have To Work Against.

Your Only Competitors Are Your Past Achievements.

Pick Up A Camera. Shoot Something. No Matter How Small, No Matter How Cheesy, No Matter Whether Your Friends And Your Sister Star In It. Put Your Name On It As Director. Now You're A Director. Everything After That You're Just Negotiating Your Budget And Your Fee.

The Films That Influenced Me Were So Disparate That There's Almost No Pattern.