All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.
A long and productive career in the world of films is bound to be checkered with success and failures. You cannot have one without the other; the only way not to make a flop is not to make a film.
Of course, every batsman gets out. I know that. It is almost inevitable that no matter what you do, you will get out at some point or the other.
You win some and you lose some. Unless you're Virgil, then you lose them all.
This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable.
Every performer will have a bad night. It's just inevitable.
We can glut ourselves with how-to-raise children information . . . strive to become more mature and aware but none of this will spare us from the . . . inevitability that some of the time we are going to fail our children. Because there is a big gap between knowing and doing. Because mature, aware people are imperfect too. Or because some current event in our life may so absorb or depress us that when our children need us we cannot come through.
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
I stare out the window and reflect on the similarity between writing and saving a life and the inevitable failure of one's imagination and one's goals and ambitions to create a character or a life worth saving.
Everyone's going to fail at some point. Even if you choose the steadiest career, you're going to go through that.
If everybody had 100% record of hits and flops, there would have been no surprises. There's not one director with 100% success rate.
Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.
Put not your trust in new leaders, better systems, new organisations or regulatory reorganisation. They may well be good and necessary, but will to some degree fail.
