Certainly you don't want to make something that nobody sees. It's not really about success, it's about sharing something.

What I lack in technique, I think I make up more for in intuition. I think intuition is underrated and so important in the work that one does in one's life.

Going with intuition a lot of times is very lonely. You're going on hunches - a little voice in here says, "Go this way." And your mind is saying, "You're crazy."

Jay Adams may not have been the world's best skater, but he was the man, the real deal, the original, the first. He is the archetype of our shared heritage.

Watching young Afghan skaters in the film 'Skateistan' made me realize why I've spent my entire life as a skateboarder.

Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.

Whenever I look at the masses, I feel one day the earth will certainly explode.

It's time for you to break away from the person that is breaking you

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.

Lose everything, even the attachment to holiness, so that you aim only at one thing: to love

I am probably a pseudo-intellectual.

All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel

I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show.

We did not flinch but gave our lives to save Greece when her fate hung on a razor's edge.

And the rest is rust and stardust.