I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.
Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.
Our goal is not to win. It's to play together and play hard. Then, winning takes care of itself.
In our program, the truth is the basis of all we do. There is nothing more important than the truth because there's nothing more powerful than the truth. Consequently, on our team, we always tell each other the truth. We must be honest with one another. There is no other way.
Courage gives a leader the ability to stand straight and not sway, no matter which way the wind blows.
The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.
Communication does not always occur naturally, even among a tight-knit group of individuals. Communication must be taught and practiced in order to bring everyone together as one
Being a part of independent-film world, the independent-film community, that's what you do. You support each other. If someone's doing a movie and you trust them, you roll the dice. Sometimes it's gonna be good, sometimes it's gonna be something that's like, "Oh I don't know what the hell that is. " But I've been more fortunate than not to have it work well.
Death is a vast mystery, but there are two things we can say about it: It is absolutely certain that we will die, and it is uncertain when or how we will die. The only surety we have, then, is this uncertainty about the hour of our death, which we seize on as the excuse to postpone facing death directly. We are like children who cover their eyes in a game of hide and seek and think that no one can see them.
Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.
We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.