15 quotes found
Filmmaker · American · 1969
American filmmaker (born 1969)
“The past is just a story we tell ourselves.”
“Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?”
“There's great food everywhere, and even McDonald's uses nice wood now.”
“Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.”
“Don't differentiate between "This is a job" and "This is what I'm doing for fun." It's all simultaneous.”
“It's like I'm reading a book, andit's a book I deeply love, but I'mreading it slowly now so the wordsare really far apart and the spacesbetween the words are almostinfinite. I can still feel you an...”
“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.”
“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 ki...”
“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 a...”
“The strengths and failings of a relationship depend entirely on your ability to talk about your feelings.”
“I respect people that are die-hard film people, but I started on video. I started on Hi8 video and mini-DV, and I made skate videos. So, I love film, and I love the way it looks, but I also love th...”