Success and failure go hand in hand.

"The things you are fired for are often the things that in later life you will be celebrated and given lifetime achievement awards for!" Francis Ford Coppola was canned for writing an "odd" and awkward script for the now legendary film Patton. The film was shelved, took years to make, and then went on to win an Oscar for best screenplay. Meanwhile, Coppola was working on The Godfather and was also on the verge of being canned from that film. He figures the glory from the Oscar saved his butt from being fired from The Godfather... which, as we all know, went down in movie making history.