If you're just letting the time pass at your job, it's just dead time and you'll never get it back. If at that job you're learning and you're observing and you're seeing about people and connections, it's suddenly alive time.

Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect.

Everybody in life is struggling for power, and some people use morality and righteousness as a weapon, while others use different means, even passive aggression. From a distance, we are all fighting, and I am looking at this from a distance.

I think I can do whatever I want with fiction, but the more documentary it is, the better it will be because that's what I'm good at. I'm good at observing people's behavior and putting these unspoken things into movie contexts in ways that other people can sometimes miss.

The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.

I've always been intrigued by fighter pilots and strategy because it occurs in like, milliseconds, you know.

I like lecturing and going around the world and giving talks and I like doing consulting and helping people.