People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries.
You don’t always win, but every time you lose, you get better.
A lot of things that happen in the world make me a bit crazy.
When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
I've sorta learned that I'm so tired of taking myself so seriously. It's so great to show up at work and truly enjoy every word you say.
Whether it's physically having a visual of what you want to accomplish in front of you, like a running list or a vision board, or mentally visualizing and taking time to meditate, having a vision of what you are running for keeps you from running for the sake of running.
We love things that are dangerous yet sexy. We love things that are powerful and wise.
I just want to be a wallflower. Nondescript. Just not anything. I don't want to see me.
Knowledge, learning, is an eternal thing.
It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment fruitless, but even if we wished to do so, it could not be done. Every man has his own conception of the world, and this he cannot so easily lay aside. We must, example, use language, and our language is necessarily steeped in preconceived ideas. Only they are unconscious preconceived ideas, which are a thousand times the most dangerous of all.
I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then.