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Originally Posted by kris

Honestly, I'm very realistic as to what can and cannot happen in my career and in life. One of the reasons, I believe, that people don't succeed is because many of them put a time limit or just give up. You can't put a limit on acting. You can't say "I'll give it six months." It just doesn't work that way. It could take six weeks or six years, but you cannot give up if you're truly passionate about it. People do bring you down, but the thing is to not take them seriously.

It's funny. I want to do both, indie and mainstream. I want to do have the status/clout of Tom Hanks or Julia Roberts and be able to make my own films. I want complete control and final cut, but I can't do that unless I'm worth $20 million a picture. I have a very DIY approach to my acting/writing and vision on how my scripts should play out, which is why I want to direct and produce.

Well, in that case, maybe you shouldn't dismiss Warren Beatty as a person you "hate". He is often called one of the few "mainstream independents" in the business. He managed to get a multinational conglomerate to finance a movie about a communist and also get Murdoch to give him carte blanche for yet another blasting political satire, "Bulworth".....