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I've turned down lots and lots of work. Things that could have made me some money.

I had had some successes in the '90s, always made money, but the truth was I was like a man pushing a boulder up a hill. A huge, heavy, difficult boulder made up of some career mistakes, projects that didn't meet expectations, and twenty years of being a known quantity.

I couldn't imagine my life being any more successful than it is now.

I had a very strong desire to be successful at something.

I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success.

I had an initial wave of popularity that, in time, crashed, and I slowly became less popular and less successful, and I had to figure out who I was without those things.

People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.

Probably some of the projects I chose to do after that had more to do with what people thought of me. The industry was very open and probably hoping that I could do anything.