Don’t differentiate between “This is a job” and “This is what I’m doing for fun.” It’s all simultaneous.
I love when me and my friends don’t know how to make something – there’s that risk of failure, which should be there. If it’s guaranteed not to fail, it’s something you already know how to do.
There were times in ‘Adaptation’ during the editing where I really thought, ‘Okay, well, this was a noble failure. I tried to do something good, but this is not going to work.’
It’s fun when you start a movie, because it’s kind of like you get to go Christmas shopping… you get to make your wish list and you start thinking about what each character needs.
Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?
Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.
There’s great food everywhere, and even McDonald’s uses nice wood now.
I skated and rode bikes on ramps, and my mom was always super supportive. She was one of the only divorced moms in the neighborhood, so all the other parents looked down upon her for letting her kids do that kind of thing.
I knew I could write infinitely about relationships. That’s the most beautiful, most confusing, most rewarding, most heartbreaking thing in our lives – and not just romantic relationships: that’s all relationships.
The strengths and failings of a relationship depend entirely on your ability to talk about your feelings.