The first movies, they just put up a camera and had a train come into a train station, and everybody was amazed. That was sort of all technology.

I’m moving away from the business, from the company, from all this kind of stuff.

You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of friends that I trust who are film directors and writers and people in my profession.

Never tell me the odds!

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

I'm here, and every day now is an extra day. I've been given an extra day so I've got to make the most of it.

Follow your bliss. Do the thing where you sit down at 8 a.m. and then you realize you're hungry and you look up and it's 10 p.m. If you can find something you love that much, it doesn't matter what you do.