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Failure is the test of greatness.
-Herman Melville
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Failure Is The Test Of Greatness.

Herman Melville
Failure is the test of greatness.
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Failure's relative. i've always felt, even early on, if i lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. it's how you treat failure, too. there's something to learn from it. i've had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures: what kind of failure was it? a failure because it's misunderstood by others? a failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. i choose just not to look at it that way. i don't look at american history x as a failure, or fight club as a failure, or 25th hour as a failure, or larry flynt as a failure, or any of the movies that i care about that i've made that were not immediately successful. i'll stand with those movies any day over 90 percent of the movies that came out at the same time that made a hundred million dollars
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