Never take your position for granted and never let any favors you receive go to your head.

A lot of things in history are timing, and it's very peculiar because in retrospect things [and] people can look more brilliant or necessary than they actually were.

Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.

Your ability to work with people directly affects your ability to get work done in the world.

Your unhappiness is a way of speaking to you, it's telling you something isn't right.

One of the things I've been talking about with my critical writing and my own work is that these movies are seen differently in a theatrical space. It's very important to me. I edit films to be seen theatrically, like fiction material I've worked on like Listen Up Phillip or other documentaries.

If you are interested in a form of science or interested in a particular kind of business or whatever - or if you want to be a writer, there's so much information out there, it's almost too much.