Just start doing

When you’re working, there’s so much self-loathing. Everyone feels like their stuff is awful. When I was at CalArts I was studying painting—I’m a terrible painter—but I remember there’s a stage of a painting that just looks like a mess and then all of a sudden it becomes a painting. Movies are like that too. Magically it starts to take shape. Now I

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I guess my motto is that in the beginning you might not know why you have an affinity for something, but you should run after it anyway.

Where do dreams go when you stop chasing them?

They hang just above your head on invisible strings. If you’ve put in the work, they’ll stick around until they hit you square in the face. Funny, isn’t it? How we repel the things we want too much. When we surrender to the possibility of losing the object of desire, opportunity wafts them in without... See more

This is why I feel like people who are less cerebral and less aware of all of the ways in which they are imperfect, they just blast past everyone else. Because they're just doing things. And they get better so much quicker. So I think that's a message I want to give to the world. You're good to go. Just start doing thin

How do we resist the pressure to follow established playbooks? How do we embrace the periods of relentless action before results? How can we navigate periods of uncertainty, mystery, and doubt without being irritable?

It's important to do things fast: You learn more per unit time because you make contact with reality more frequently. Going fast makes you focus on what's important; there's no time for bullshit.