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.

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.

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

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.

Sometimes before your luck can be good, someone else's has to be bad

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.

Most are unaware of their tremendous worth and boundless potential, despite possessing both.

Laws like the spider's web catch the fly and let the hawk go free.

Philosophically, the notion of a beginning of the present order of Nature is repugnant to me ... I should like to find a genuine loophole.

Nothing sexy about pregnancy.

If someone is killing, on a regular basis, thousands of animals, and if that person can only be stopped in one way by the use of violence, then it is certainly a morally justifiable solution.

She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." - Alaska

Even an empty road leads somewhere, right?

I've always liked Playboy; I think it's very tasteful.