Be willing to get fired for a good idea.

As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.

I like hiring people based on a feeling - this person gets it - rather than what they've done in the past.

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.

The past is just a story we tell ourselves.

I think at the beginning of a project, you decide if you're in love with the idea and what it's about, or what you think it's about at that time at least. Then you commit to it, and once you've commit to it no matter what, no matter how many self doubts you have, you're in it. The ship's sailed, you can't turn around.

I feel like everything I make is personal to me.