Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.

What is a great spiritual practitioner? A person who lives always in the presence of his or her own true self, someone who has found and who uses continually the springs and sources of profound inspiration. As the modern English writer Lewis Thompson wrote: 'Christ, supreme poet, lived truth so passionately that every gesture of his, at once pure Act and perfect Symbol, embodies the transcendent.'
To embody the transcendent is why we are here.

The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now.

The most important thing in life is knowing the most important things in life.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least

It doesn't feel like a long time to me. My life is full. I have new priorities. I've been working a long time, so now I do movies for a different reason than I did for much of my career.