I also make movies that can be seen on a small screen, as I shoot on digital video. Hopefully they can be seen small and can live like that.

Real action and true helpfulness are perhaps the ultimate charm.

You can never get rid of all of your fears. Some are necessary and a part of life. But most of our fears are illusory, based on risks or threats that exist only in our minds. Such fears constrain and make you miserable. The feeling of moving past a particular fear is one of liberation and freedom.

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

Hasty climbers have sudden falls.

A lot of people in college go astray because they choose something that doesn't really, really connect to them. And if it doesn't connect to you, you're not able to put in that 10,000 hours that people talk about. You don't have the focus. And you start off in life on the wrong foot and you never get back.

When you raise your opinion of yourself and what you are capable of it has a decided influence on what you do.