I took a little break - I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a step backwards, so I knew that if I was going to take a feature it was going to have to be taking a step forward.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have to strive to go two steps forward and realize that, sometimes, there will be one step back.
I take things one step at a time.
I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.
I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, 'It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.' If you stop, it's harder to get started again. I still don't think I made the wrong decision, but he was right.
I do things right. No shortcuts.
I never really take shortcuts. I was always one of those people who, instead of cutting across someone's yard on the way home from school, I would go to the end of the block and turn.
In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.
It's different for every project. Some parts are quicker than others to get and know; sometimes right up until the last moment you're just praying that something will click. But you can only do a certain amount of work and then at some point you've got to think: 'OK, I'm just going to have to leap now.'
The way I am, I like to look forward instead of looking back.
I never thought I would start working again, and I did, but it was really hard, and I don't know that I would advise anyone to step back the way I did.