I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.
I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience.
'Social Network' is a good story with human experience connective tissue that makes it ageless.
Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.
Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.
I think the word 'freedom' is beautiful, not so much in its phonics, but just in the power of the word itself.
It was a great childhood. We weren't especially wealthy or anything, but I felt I had a kind of safety and freedom.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.
First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
What I've been noticing is people coming up to me and going, 'Are you an actor?' which is cool. That's ultimately what I want.
My parents are very cool and wildly supportive - maybe almost too much. I want to tell them to chill out.
I write because it's my way of finding cool ideas, thinking through hard problems and things I don't understand, and getting better at something.
I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.'
Nirvana is next level. The songs are really cool to connect with on a more mature level, and I don't think I really understood that when I was 15.
It's now possible to play and take lessons from any place of the world. The concept of physical distance doesn't exist in the online world, and that is so cool!
My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.
If people could walk around in suits of energy, that would be cool. Other than that, I don't think men should wear spandex.
Before I started MakerBot, I was creating cool stuff and sharing it with the Internet. That's how I knew all the folks at BoingBoing, at Engadget and Gizmodo.
Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do something that's totally geeky.
