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

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.

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

Changing the game is a mindset.

...faith is acting as if God has already answered. And acting as if God has answered means acting on our prayers...

I did so many bad things to your god

[Connor, prepared to sacrifice himself to save Sarah]God, I pray, give me the strength to live the next hour well.

I don't care about a golfer. I don't care about getting better as a golfer. I want to be better as a person.

We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?

All states of mind have different views. On the higher plateau, opportunities will open to you because you can see them.

Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me.

The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.

A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.

Edits are very important to me - they're the way in which I work on everything.