I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.

I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'

The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth.

And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.

Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.

I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.