It doesn't matter how much money you've got, or how many connections, there's always something you want that's out of reach.
It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid... One wants... But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one?
I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.
I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.
We secretly believe that if only we achieve some elusive goal - fitting into a pair of skinny jeans, or redoing our kitchen or getting that promotion - that it will make us happy. But the pain of our insecurity is hidden in all that racing around.
We all desire things that we believe we cannot have, and so my films reflect that again and again. The mystery must be solved, the goal attained.
Now I'm livin' out here on the beach, but those seagulls are still out of reach.
Historically, a successful life in comedy is a dream that's as equally pondered and unpursued as being an astronaut.
My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.
I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We have dedicated our lives to the pursuit of phantoms. The difference is the nature of those phantoms. Mine exist between other men's ears; yours live solely between your own.
