Parental advice: My mother's best advice was "you should always do what your instinct tells you, and you will very rarely be wrong".
On failure: Failure is never really failure, it just means something has to be looked at.
Dealings with News Corporation through the Sullivan Bleuth animation business: I would not recommend to anybody being a minority shareholder to Rupert Murdoch.
His holiday cottage in Ballyconneely, Co Galway: I built 12 of them and kept one.
The high personnel turnover at Roger Corman's Concorde Anois
Teo studio: Roger does not expect them to stay. He gives them a thorough training. When you leave Corman you could have 10 films to your credit.
On The General, which he produced: Basically it is a fictional representation of a man who happened to have existed. It was not a documentary.