Free time is the enemy of progress

It's the execution that matters, never the idea.

If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living, then you're doing it wrong

The approach to that movie wasn't, 'Lets make this movie about Amsterdam and maple syrup.' The concept was, 'Lets go to Amsterdam. Amsterdam is fun.' So we flew to Amsterdam with our cameras and we saw what happened and then we got back and we sat down and we said, 'What's the movie here.' That's when we realized that the movie was 'The Maple Syrup Saga'.

As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.

I always see the filming as basically going to the grocery store and buying a bunch of ingredients and that's about as far from having a dinner as you can possibly be. Then editing is the cooking, the preparation of the meal and if you don't edit it you've just got a pile of raw meat.

The technical process which is interesting in it's own right but I think the creative process is what's more intriguing to me.