I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
I have been traveling to every corner of the great state of Florida. I've met some great people and we've had an honest discussion about the failures of Washington.
There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from super-large successes to failures. Success would be love, I guess, and failure could still be love, but the bad side; and loss.
While we talk about successes, I think it's also important to talk about all the failures. Like, for every Netflix special, there's things that don't work.
My first film was a failure. I had many failures too. It's not easy dealing with it.
Failures and setbacks are inevitable for all of us.
I believe the perfect life is the right combination between great things, great success and stupid mistakes or failures.
If you compromise, and then you succeed, that's another kind of feeling. But if you compromise and fail, it's two failures at least.
I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.
I say to people all the time, it is OK to fail. Some of the greatest successes in the history of America started out as failures.
