Creativity doesn't follow titles. It just comes from where it comes from.

You can give a great film idea to a mediocre team and they may screw it up, but if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will turn it into a great film.

Every creative person can draft into service those around them who exhibit the right mixture of intelligence, insight, and grace.

Creativity doesn't follow titles. It just comes from where it comes from.

You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.

It's pretty popular today to say that everybody should learn to fail and that failure's a good thing. Intellectually, it's an obvious thing. But in fact, it gets conflated with another meaning of failure, so when we grow up as kids, failing in school was a really bad thing.

I actually feel awkward being at the center of attention.