Lessons learned from the Hackman story, for life here in the state of greater Santa Fe.
1) When a mouse gets In to your buildings, take cleaning up after it very seriously indeed. No broom. No vacuum. Aerosolize the droppings and there’s a 50% chance you’re dead in a few days.
2) When you feel your mind starting to slip away, drive out into the desert and end yourself with dignity while there’s still time. You do not want to spend your last week of consciousness in the company of your wife dead on the floor and not even be able to recognize it. You do not want to go gentle into that good night bearing the burden of the howling of a dog that you left crated until it died of dehydration because you don’t have the wits left to water it.
3) If you don’t have the means or opportunity to make good movies, you can at least watch them, and let yourself consider why not.