I didn't realize how slow my four-year-old MacBook was until the web team wanted to start using it as the benchmark for a slow computer experience.

For some reason, humans have this funny thing about where we came from - it always has far more emotional weight than where we are.

My real motivation came from my desire for music videos to have the same equal soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does.

Music scores your life. You interact with it. It becomes the soundtrack to that one summer with that one girl.

Music videos are very concrete and rigid. They don't allow for emotional interaction.

As a filmmaker, you are constantly having the discussion with your team about whether something is "relatable".

In virtual reality, we're placing the viewer inside a moment or a story... made possible by sound and visual technology that's actually tricking the brain into believing it's somewhere else.

Virtual reality is a technology that could actually allow you to connect on a real human level, soul-to-soul, regardless of where you are in the world.

All these experiments I've done over the years with technology have been asking whether I can tell stories that affect humans in a deeper way than I could without the technology.

Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.

Principal Totty was one of those people who frown while they’re speaking, and then smile at the end of each sentence. It was weird. It was like there were two different people inside her brain.

Everyone likes me, yet nobody understands me.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.

Her smile steps offstage for a moment, then does an encore, all while I'm dealing with my blushing face.

Wanna move out the hood and defeat that cancer I ask how she stay on her feet like dancers How she keep on adding paint to a life-size canvas.

The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes.

The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible.

Your mind is your prison when you focus on your fear.