It is not a happy time when a film doesn't do well... Everything affects you, success affects you and failure also affects you.
I have learnt the hard way that neither success nor failure last forever.
Whenever we try something new, mistakes will happen. Seemingly good ideas will fail and need to be re-thought.
My sense of my own superiority over many of my classmates would have been much more muted if I knew that they had seen me failing miserably at woodwork or cross-stitch.
Partly, identity politics is a result of economic failure.
Yes, I've heard of the 'Mad Men' comparisons, but I like to think 'The Hour' has its own distinctive voice. Although it is set in 1956, I have tried to give it a contemporary edge, and its themes of love, passion, romance, fury, professional jealousy, and personal failure are universal, I think.
All work is a process of failure. Every single thing I write, I look at it and go, 'Do better. That's not good enough. Do better.' And so, that keeps me up at night.
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.
