Collaborations aren't easy, but you definitely get something highly different than had you done it on your own. That's part of the experience.
My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost - not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions.
Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.
I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.
When you make a movie, a dramatization based on the real experience of a living subject, you can't airbrush that away into to a perfect movie arc.
If you take most men aside when their wives are pregnant, most men are pretty frightened and worried and faintly disgusted by the whole experience.
I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.
In fashion, there are so many gangs, if you identify too much with one, you get caught - I would lose my freedom.
Success and failure are emotional and physiological experiences. We need to deal with them in a way that is present and calm.
I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number.
I always say that failure was my friend. I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.
When I was trying out for my first Olympics at 16, my family and coaches tried to regulate what I ate. But the stricter they got, the more I rebelled.
I'm the rogue Canadian in my family - I just happened to be born here while my parents were studying here.
I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.
I have a day job, which means my family isn't dependent on the writing income. So if I have an idea I like, I write it.
If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.
When I was skating I felt I represented not just my family and the people who helped me make it to that point, but also New York and the country.
Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.
