“If you have to ask somebody how to become a film director, you’ll probably never do it…The film industry is all about saying ‘no’ to people, so inherently you cannot take ‘no’ for an answer…If [my reply] pisses you off, and then you go out and say, ‘I’m going to show that Jim Cameron; I am going to be a director’—that gives you the kind of true grit you need to have in order to go through with it.” -James Cameron
“We were told, explicitly, ‘don’t do it,’…Ben’s mom told me, ‘Don’t do it,’ you know what I mean?” “So I do think if you’re really meant to do it, it doesn’t matter what anybody says.” -Matt Damon
Question: “Should I do it?”
Answer: “If you can be talked out of it, then you shouldn’t do it.”
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