“That often happens when you make films. If you try to make the film to accommodate something outside yourself, or please an audience or please the critical community  or for commercial reasons or even artistic goals - if you’re doing it for some calculated reason that you’re not comfortable with and you strike out with it, you feel really bad.”

- Woody Allen

This is a quote that I knew of, and failed to listen to on a few occasions. And he’s right. The only thing that matters is passion. You can’t control the response to your film, you can’t control what happens when it goes out there to the world. The only thing you can control is the passion for your project. And in the end, that’s all that matters.