Which relationships did you tend well, and which did you neglect while other things felt urgent?

it's not profound regret. It's just a wiping up of tiny, little messes that you didn't recognize as a mess when they were going on

Roll up your sleeves and work as a bouncer in a sex club or a warden in a lunatic asylum or a machine operator in a slaughterhouse. Drive a taxi for six months and you’ll have enough money to make a film. Walk on foot, learn languages and a craft or trade that has nothing to do with cinema. Filmmaking — like great literature — must have experience of life at its foundation. Read Conrad or Hemingway and you can tell how much real life is in those books.