As a filmmaker, you are constantly having the discussion with your team about whether something is "relatable".

For some reason, humans have this funny thing about where we came from - it always has far more emotional weight than where we are.

My real motivation came from my desire for music videos to have the same equal soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does.

I didn't realize how slow my four-year-old MacBook was until the web team wanted to start using it as the benchmark for a slow computer experience.

Music scores your life. You interact with it. It becomes the soundtrack to that one summer with that one girl.

Music videos are very concrete and rigid. They don't allow for emotional interaction.

In virtual reality, we're placing the viewer inside a moment or a story... made possible by sound and visual technology that's actually tricking the brain into believing it's somewhere else.

Virtual reality is a technology that could actually allow you to connect on a real human level, soul-to-soul, regardless of where you are in the world.

All these experiments I've done over the years with technology have been asking whether I can tell stories that affect humans in a deeper way than I could without the technology.

And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.

The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.

Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.

If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture any more.

If we aren't actively pursuing what we want, we don't really want it.

Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.