But on the whole, nothing requires unbearable energy for me, it's just a normal thing.
I don't want to push myself and am happy doing one to two films a year.
You find your limits by going out and trying. We're just like anybody else in any other job. You just can't work 90 hour weeks. You can't do it. We can't sing seven days a week.
You get burned out very quickly. You can sprint 100 yards, but you cant sprint a mile, and these jobs are all sprints.
Explaining the short average tenure of high level government jobs:
When you treat yourself right, you run better and more efficiently. Which means you don't have to go 100 miles an hour to get everything done.
In the initial stages of my journey, I was trying to travel too fast by horse by sticking to a 'five days on and two off' schedule. On the steppe, time is not measured by days, weeks or hours but the fall of the seasons and condition of the animals.
I'm an old guy. I've been doing this a long time. And I don't hustle and I don't bustle. I have seen the people who hustle and bustle, and they are already gone, at a young age.
The time has come to challenge our obsession with doing everything more quickly.
I can't tell you how hard I worked the last year. In fact, I worked so hard that I know I can't maintain that same work level in 2001, so I've got to quit something.