It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.
I don't spend sleepless nights over getting very bad reviews.
Money doesn't make films. You just do it and take the initiative.
I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read. . . if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.
I have worked for YouTube like texting and driving because I was curious to test what's out there and how does it function, can I release something like about texting and driving to very young audiences, at the age where they do their drivers test? And the response was phenomenal, millions of people saw it.
Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.
If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the new one that's got all this cool new stuff, but there might be a few bugs in it - people always want the new one. But I wouldn't want them to operate a plane I was on with software that happened to be the latest greatest release!
Reasoning is the mental tool that use to think with
It's very important that young artists push boundaries, because sometimes you have this urge to do something - like the impulsive and dangerous urges I had as a child - and if you don't follow through with it you might miss out on a developmental experience.
To describe happiness is to diminish it.