Inspiration is hogwash. My work comes directly out of my loves and hates. Muses don't whisper in my ear, and ideas don't flow over my body like a cool rain.

Things that make you weird as a kid will make you great tomorrow.

It's about whittling. It's about taking something and whittling and whittling and getting it sharp and perfect. Then you've got something.

If your work appeals to everyone, it moves no one

The life you want doesn't exist. You have to make it up.

If you don't enjoy what you're doing, how can you assume anyone else will

But the few brave ones, both companies and individuals, who risk comfort and safety for a chance at beauty or being able to move someone — they have a potential to gain so much more.

You can't learn anything new, until you are open enough to forget everything you think you know

We're supposed to be the people who make culture, not decorate culture.

Put your weird in your work!

Go have fun and make money

When there is life and you are not working towards your hope, then that hope will produce no result

To discover the exact location of a 'thing' is a simple matter of factual research. To discover the exact location of a person: where to locate the self?

Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal do not beg do not grovel. Take courage join hands stand beside us fight with us.

When you're trying to build or change a culture, what do you do? I always say to take players from state championship teams because they only know one thing -- winning.

All guys are jerks but they get hotter with age and we learn to be more tolerant.

Mirth itself is too often but melancholy in disguise.

I was thinking." "I see no evidence of that, Jared." Kami said.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

We have to continue to confront the challenge of corruption within the public service.

I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.