An interview is only as good as both parties are willing to give to the interview and that includes the interviewer.

I guess I need a hobby. Currently my primary hobby is complaining.

Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence.

I loved movies. They inspired me more than anything growing up and wanted to do for others what those movies have done for me. I do a lot of other creative stuff but am not very good at it.

Our brains will destroy ourselves if we don't put it outward.

We don't work in the traditional TV format where we're like writing concurrently to shooting. Like, we really view it as a large feature film.

I went to film school at UT Austin. I learned a lot and that school's good for puking up all your bad movies early and quick. But ultimately, no one can teach you to be an artist.

Most people in Hollywood are making about 10 percent of all the things they're considering; I am making 95 percent.

The worst question really comes from the attitude of the asker and it usually comes in the form of "What was your inspiration for the film?"

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.

He'd turned away from a life on basic to live in the stars, or if not the stars, at least the rocks that floated free in the night sky.

Success requires first expending 10 units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce 10 units of results with each unit of effort.

Because poets feel what we're afraid to feel, venture where we're reluctant to go, we learn from their journeys without taking the same dramatic risks.

Are there any celebs I'd like to meet? I'd love to meet the Dalai Lama.

Religion was made to order to "save the world," to use a phrase Christians use so much, but we really haven't been doing a good job of it for centuries. It's heartbreaking really.

Ground yourself, strip yourself down, To blind loving Silence

I never felt like I was on solid ground, emotionally.

When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.

Most players I play with, I don't look at their swing when they're over the ball or anything like that.