Wickedness may prosper for a while.
The attempt to combine wisdom with power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
He was, albeit only briefly, the hero of the world's hopes.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
If you have a flop movie, so what? And if you have a hit movie, it's 'so what,' too - it's on to the next movie.
All glory is fleeting. And, If you do not love what you do, don't do it.
Enthusiasm just creates bubbles; it doesn't keep them from popping.
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
To be successful for a moment because of one movie doesn't mean anything.
Things kind of have their arc: you get signed, and your first thought is, 'Oh my God, I made it!' But you never really make it.
If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I'll probably abandon it immediately.
