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?"

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

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

But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity.

The click [of a light switch] is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.

Monetary relations have penetrated into every nook and cranny of the world and into almost every aspect of social, even private life.

The x factor of a great leader is humility combined with will.

Trump is a very specific case. It's really gonna be hard to replicate that.

Isn't it amazing what scientists can accomplish when no one makes them stop?

Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.

If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist.

Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.