I love the freedom of writing and then I love the realization of directing. I can't favor one or the other. I enjoy both parts of the process.

Writing is really freeing because it's the only part of the process where it's just you and the characters and you are by yourself in a room and you can just hash it out. There are no limitations.

I love directing because you get to see your film come to life. You get to work with the actors. There's something magical about each piece of it.

Once your film is done, you can't explain to people what something was supposed to be. You can't give them footnotes. It all has to be there.

In New York there's a lot of interstitial spaces; spaces in between spaces, where you're changing, and New York gives you the anonymity to be who you want to be.

Customer service has everything to do with consistency, systems, training, and the habits you and your team create.

Every avalanche was once a lonely snowflake, every flood was once an aching raindrop.

The only person that you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday

I write because I want to inspire people and help them live a sorted life

For me, writing was the only way out.

The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.

Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. "Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth!" "Only a Janus," groaned Hamilton.

I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code.

Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship.

But the idea that some day people would want to be able to interact and get stock quotes and talk with other people or all these different things, I just believed that was going to happen