“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.”

“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'm fascinated by artificial intelligence.”

“All the things that made us basically nasty, rapacious, competitive as a species are not necessarily hard-coded into whatever passes for the DNA of artificial intelligence.”

“There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.”