And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.

真理总是存在于简单之中，而不是存在于事物的多样性和混乱之中。

制作电影就像解决一个巨大的谜题；每一块都必须完美地契合。

你的二十多岁是做一些不寻常、奇怪、大胆、冒险、无法解释、疯狂、无利可图、看起来一点也不像“成功”的事情的最佳时期。在你的余生，这些经历将成为你的灵感源泉。