Freedom isn't the ability to do whatever you want. It's the willingness to do whatever you want.

You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that came to hear you perform.

Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right story to the others.

Knowing what to do is very, very different than actually doing it.

My mother-in-law is obsessed with clowns.

A good job is largely anonymous and forgotten (but still important). A personal job, on the other hand, is humanized. It brings us closer together. It might not be remarkable, but it stands out as memorable because (however briefly) the recipient of the work was touched by someone else. Often, remarkable work is personal too, but personal might just be enough for today.

The only purpose of starting is to finish, and while the projects we do are never really finished, they must ship.