“You cannot wait for somebody else to give you the keys. Make your best idea and make it right now the best way that you can right now. Do not wait. You are a machine that can just generate idea after idea after idea, and you need to make your thing right now...
“I would advise you, I would in fact implore you to take a step back and look at your specific career ambition and put that in line with everything else you want and figure out how to have a full life. It makes you a better writer. It makes you a better...
“The director I learned the most from was Clint Eastwood. And I learned many, many things from him. He is an absolute master and he would not ever want to do more than four takes. Now, uh, you work with some directors who will do 20 takes. He would only do four....
If you think you’re good at something and you’re willing to do what it takes to get there, there’s nothing that’s going to stop you. So you may as well jump in. I would just say go see as much as you can and read, read, read. You know, people,...
“My philosophy, three words. Always say yes. When somebody asks you, do you want to move to la? Yes. Do you want to be production director? Yes. Do you want to do television documentaries? Yes. That’s the way you’re ever going to learn or grow, say...
