'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Catch-22's first readers were largely of the generation that went through World War II. For them, it provided a startlingly fresh take, a much-needed, much-delayed laugh at the terror and madness they endured.
I dropped out of college and ended up making this feature film I wrote when I was 19 with some friends. It was terrible.
When I did '21 Jump Street,' I felt like I was a part of something great, but on a very large scale. Working with people that genuinely want to make good art or good work or a good film, that's what keeps me going.
I had my years of struggling. Some of my shows failed miserably, and I was upset by it, and it dented my confidence. But I never stopped. I kept going for it. And when I returned to New York from Los Angeles, I mean, it was make it or not - that was my last chance. And what a great chance it was, to make it in my own hometown.
I was eighteen when I first read Joseph Heller's stunning work 'Catch-22,' and was at that time close to being drafted for the fruitless and unenlightened war in Viet Nam.
I certainly could've gone off track many, many times in my youth.
The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.
I had a great career and I enjoyed all of it, with the exception of losing.
I cited 'Catch-22' as a landmark film and one of my favourites.
When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'