Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.

If you're just creative, you'll always have to rely on technical people. If you're creative and technical, you're unstoppable.

People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.

Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves.

Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way.

Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.

When you take technology and mix it with art, you always come up with something innovative.

Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.

Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.

Tell everyone that your mistakes are art. You can get away with a lot that way.

You create superheroes to take care of problems that can't really be solved another way.

It can be said that one slip of point of view by a writer can hurt a story badly, and several slips can be fatal.' Stein on Writing

When you've been touched by sadness and grief, it makes you vulnerable. And because I am vulnerable, I try to be positive. And when I say 'try, ' I really do mean try, because it's an effort.

My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed.

A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others.

I was different from most young conductors today.

If someone lies to you, be quick to forgive & they'll be more apt to tell you the truth.

Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult.

I don't think things are getting more insane. I do know that the country is more divided than it's ever been. Tensions in America are at their peak.

That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.