I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.
I wouldn't say that I'm a jack-of-all-trades, master of none, but I wouldn't say that I'm brilliant at any.
Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.
One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.