When you're first thinking through an idea, it's important not to get bogged down in complexity. Thinking simply and clearly is hard to do.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.

If you look after your staff, they'll look after your customers. It's that simple.

Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes-then learn how to do it later!

Never take your eyes off the cash flow because it's the life blood of business.

If people aren't calling you crazy, you aren't thinking big enough.

We all have an inner intuition for authenticity, for matched up internal and external truth. When we detect this, we feel immediate comfort. We know truth when we hear it.

I know I'm no Whitney Houston.

Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has been poorly written. It is written in the language of fear.

Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.

In that Freak Show environment, I got to spend time with so many of the actors who were part of that world. I just had the best time ever.

If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.

Every director should take an acting class.

Without a wish, without a will, I stood upon that silent hill And stared into the sky until My eyes were blind with stars and still I stared into the sky.