I'll say that in this moment I feel really successful because I'm extraordinarily proud.
"Well, you know," he says eventually, "all the successful actors I've ever met – I mean really successful actors, with long careers, who've continued to produce work, not flash in the pans?
"I'd rather have a life and these relationships," she said, "because when all this is over, I don't want to be up there like 'Well, I was really successful, but where are all my friends?' They're not here because you weren't there.
"I earned my living as a writer for something like 35 years before I really was successful enough as an artist to quit my job and to paint full time.
I was really successful at it most of my career.
That may sound strange now, because I was really successful so very young.
She added, "If I had been really successful, I can't promise you I would've given it up.
I was so upset because I knew I had a really successful and powerful picture that was moving, but wasn't depressing.
[With] every book I think: well, if this one's really successful, maybe I won't have to make dinner any more," she laughs.
I'll look back on this as a year in which I did a lot of growing, and in which I laid some really successful foundations with my new team, Mercedes.
