Wickedness may prosper for a while.
The attempt to combine wisdom with power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
He was, albeit only briefly, the hero of the world's hopes.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
If you have a flop movie, so what? And if you have a hit movie, it's 'so what,' too - it's on to the next movie.
All glory is fleeting. And, If you do not love what you do, don't do it.
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
Enthusiasm just creates bubbles; it doesn't keep them from popping.
Things kind of have their arc: you get signed, and your first thought is, 'Oh my God, I made it!' But you never really make it.
To be successful for a moment because of one movie doesn't mean anything.
If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I'll probably abandon it immediately.
