I love the interplay with other smart and creative people who have got better ideas than I do and that I can bring something to, as well.

One of the things I've always tried to do in filmmaking is that you don't tell the story, you try to show it.

The advantages of a virtual production pipeline are that you can reduce the footprint of your production down to the size of the stage.

The real tough thing is working with actors. I'm a designer and used to working with artists, so there is some familiarity with the personalities that come up, but actors are their own animal.

I never feel like I'm the guy that's got all the answers.

The fact that there are awards and exhibitions and some people know who I am is just all gravy. I'm lucky to just work in an industry where I get to play so much.

My problem has been with purely digital films. I feel the danger there is that the kind of short-cuts you end up having to take are the ones that are most telling in the main characters.

You want to feel appreciated, definitely. I think I've been very lucky to have a long enough career, so that I do get this kind of feedback.

Even in traditional filmmaking, you're always trying to find novel ways of telling stories, and this is different.

You gain wisdom and you don't make the same mistakes.

Your level of self-confidence is not something you are born with, though it is influenced by the circumstances into which you were born and grew up.

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

When I get excited about a character, I'll start doing things as the character and thinking about what the character would do.

What drives me is what I'm putting out into the world, and I like to make films that people can connect to, or they can escape in.

I was on the dance floor but I couldn't hear the band.

In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into action.

Anyone who thinks you can pay $3,100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services - like I said - he may go to M-I-T but he is an N-U-T.

A gossip is someone who's the knife of the party.

Never give up searching for the job that you're passionate about.