I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, "This is the most boring thing I've ever seen."

I'm thrilled by the fact that I made something out of nothing. There it is! It wasn't there before: there it is - I made it! That's pretty powerful, and that's the power that Buddhists give to every single person.

Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.

That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.

I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.