You should never accept what can be offered to you if you feel it can be improved.

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

There is no single recipe for success. But there is one essential ingredient: Passion

Never make a big decision without sleeping on it.

I have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I'm well balanced today.

If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day

I try to seek out and surround myself with people who just percolate fresh, original, and creative ideas.

So the pie isn't perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.

I get up really early, and I go to bed really late. Sometimes I get tired, but it's not important. I have an exciting existence, and there's so much to do.

Go to where you do not know what you do not know. That is where you will find all your opportunities.

The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things.

Don't be made useless or idle with despair. Gather yourself around your strength for light does the darkness most fear.

People who focus on 'getting better' goals (also known as Personal Bests) as opposed to performance goals have a much better chance of success.

Genius is sorrow's child.

Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!

I live art, I respect people, and I've found what I want to do in life - I've found what makes me happy.

[On filmmaking:] Cardinal rule: It's a youth business.

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.