If you go to sleep with the blind, you'll wake up squinting.
The hardest person to wake up is the person who is already awake.
Some people do need to grow up, but I don't think I'm there yet. I don't think I'm ready to do grown-up things and be a grown-up.
When you grow up on film, people sometimes have difficulties accepting the fact that you are growing up. They always imagine you younger.
Defeat is a transient perception but giving up is permanent. So never give up.
There are a lot of funny people in my family. Absolutely. There were a lot of jokes growing up around the dinner table, for sure. We didn't grow up in a creative family.
Growing up in the business you have to grow up very fast - you do have a different type of childhood, that has its benefits and it has its drawbacks.
I do this 'Walker shake.' You got to get knocked down many times, shake it off. Life is about ups and downs, and you got to keep standing up.
Showing up every day isn't enough. There are a lot of guys who show up every day who shouldn't have showed up at all.
Some people wake up fast. Some people wake up slow. I wake up dead.
[first lines] Mister Senor Love Daddy: Wake up! Wake up! Up you wake!
I'm Christian. Growing up in Ethiopia, it's half-Christian and half-Muslim. You grow up with Muslim kids. I'm very much aware of their religion.
My advice to young people wanting to make music and to be in this industry is to really spend your time making music. Make so much music you have no friends. Make music. Figure out what it is you love, and... because if you're making cool art, then e...
So many designers only sketch and leave pattern-making to others. Pattern-making is important so you know the structure. Then if someone tells me, 'I can't make a pattern from that sketch,' I can tell them, 'I will make it' and then they are quiet. I...
I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.
I don't want to give advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.
Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.
Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.
I don't want to make a movie till I have an idea I have to make. I don't want to make a movie just to make a movie.
There's very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money, when they can make films that make huge money.
If you are up to your knees in pleasure, then you are up to your waist in grief.
