The most powerful art is often the most humble.
"The power of film is to open our eyes to the unseen, to make us feel the unfelt."
Life is not like cooking, where you can prepare all the ingredients before you start cooking.
So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.