For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition - photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films.
I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.
If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could actually turbocharge the rate at which the world invents things.
I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.
You are the magical fairy that makes things happen in your life. Don't wait for someone else to make your dreams come true.
For it is one thing to declare one's love for someone and quite another to accept that loving that person requires sacrificing one's dreams.
I haven't looked to my peers for advice because we're all going through the same thing. How do you ask your friends for advice when they're going through the exact same thing?
The more things we accumulate, the more cluttered our lives become, and the more stressed we feel as we are compelled to think about them. Life is about people not about things.
I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.
The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second; immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the dominating factor.
Live life fully in the present & enjoy the small things in life that give you joy, for the seemingly small & insignificant moments add up to a greater whole.
One of the most important things a man must bear in mind is this very thing - that he owes his fellow a transforming encounter.
It's one thing to say don't commit atrocities on the battlefield. It's another thing to say don't get caught doing atrocities.
This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.
People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Confidence, knowing for certain that the person making the call has your safety foremost in their mind. And knowing that the job you are about to take on is the right thing to do, that it makes sense.
I don't know the perfect thing to say when a person is hurting but I do know the last thing they want to hear are reasons they shouldn't be hurting.
I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things.
Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly.
Sometimes being hotheaded and doing it your own way and walking out on all the hot shit might be the right thing to do.
