Your favorite story, whatever it might be, was written for one reader

Your favorite story, whatever it might be, was written for one reader

The good thing about being in advertising was a lot of the skills cross over: you have to be accountable for your jokes; you have to tell a story quickly. It's the most expensive filmmaking foot-for-foot in the world, so it does teach you how to use all of the machines and how to think of things in terms of the physical process of capturing the images. And you have to sell your work. You have to walk into whatever it is and stand up in the middle of a conference room with a storyboard in your hand and make people laugh.

You're not always right. You're often wrong. But at least you're looking at it as objectively as you can with as much experience as you can in the moment and saying, "Yeah, I think it's funny" or "No, I don't think it's funny yet."

It's always hard, but it's always fun to attack a premise that you think is interesting. It does take a few drafts for sure.

There are people who are put on this earth to do everything.

You want to surround yourself with people who are as dedicated to their discipline as you are to yours and let them do what they do.