I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

I used to take photographs just to remember people.

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.

The Good News is the gospel of glad-tidings.

Sharpen your mind with the beauty of knowledge and the tears of experience to be wise.

Simplify and focus on the good. The beauty of the journey ahead will flourish on its own.

If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.

It's important to me that people can associate being different with being beautiful.

For me, my voice and music was always an outlet. Growing up in an unstable environment and whatnot, music was my only real escape.

Every time something tries to create respect with a machine it crumbles!

It took thirty-eight years before 50 million people gained access to radios. It took television thirteen years to earn an audience that size. It took Instagram a year and a half.

You have people who know you are competent enough to do your job and then you have the ones that just hover around.

I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.