Sometimes you feel like you have to do research to make something, other times you know you don't feel it so much.
Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter
Understand: you are one of a kind. Your character traits are a kind of chemical mix that will never be repeated in history. There are ideas unique to you, a specific rhythm and perspective that are your strengths, not your weaknesses. You must not be afraid of your uniqueness and you must care less and less what people think of you.
Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself – your worth, your abilities, your potential. They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose – they want to keep you down.
You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.
Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others—that is too high a price to pay.
You have the power to think differently about who you are. You have the ability to turn off the critical voice inside of you. That's not you. That's coming from the culture. That's coming from the outside of you. You've internalized the voice of your parents, your teachers, your friends.
The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode
In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.
I am a huge fan of proselytizing. I am a huge fan of speaking your mind. The only way we can share the universe. . . is by talking very strongly about what we believe.
I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.