if you can’t make a great picture in your own backyard, it isn’t going to happen anywhere else...

The frightening and most difficult thing about being what somebody
calls a creative person is that you have absolutely no idea where any
of your thoughts come from really and especially you don't have any
idea about where they're going to come from tomorrow. --- Hal Riney

Work on the process, not the result. If the process is perfect, the result will be.

But I ducked. And I waited. And it worked.

holding out for the real.
keeping it together because of.

"[The sitter's] need to plead his case is probably as deep as my need to plead mine. But the control is with me."

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Bill Cosby

Los Angeles