When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world… try not to bash into the walls too much… try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

There are moments that I’ve had some real brilliance, you know.
But I think they are moments.
And sometimes, in a career, moments are enough.
I never felt I played the great part.
I never felt that I directed the great movie.
And I can’t say that it’s anybody’s fault but my own.