“Success isn’t overnight. It’s when everyday you get a little better than the day before. It all adds up.”

The first step to achieving your goal, is to take a moment to respect your goal. Know what it means to you to achieve it.

If something stands between you and your success – move it. Never be denied.

In 1995 I had $7 bucks in my pocket and knew two things: I’m broke as hell and one day I won’t be. You Can Achieve Anything!

In business, you take a swing and you hope that you hit a home run, but sometimes you strike out. Strikeouts and failures are important. Being down, getting punched in the gut every once in a while by life and coming back up, that’s accomplishment.

Wake up determined. Go to bed satisfied.

I love driving the cool cars, but there is nothing like driving a pickup truck.

Once you believe in who you are and who you were born to be, it can be very powerful.

I don’t worry about overexposure [in work], I think it’s important just to go in, and think about quality work and try to put the best movies out.

You’ve got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking and know what they’ll accept from you.

Success at anything will always come down to this: focus & effort. And we control both.

You will go one on one with the Great One!

There is no substitute for hardwork. Always be humble and hungry.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

I’m very low-key. I don’t really blend in, so it’s difficult to go out in public. I like to do things that are kind of quiet, whether it’s a dinner at my house or a restaurant, or a movie night at home.

If you are halfway smart, and you could really listen to the audience, you could really learn a lot.

Those who are truly brave, shall never live in fear.

Letting go is even more important than adding.

Love shouldn’t make our choices for us; it should just add importance to our choices.

When valuing a startup, add $500k for every engineer, and subtract $250k for every MBA.

One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.

But I have to add – and this answers your other question – this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.

To worry is to add another hazard.

A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing should be added to it and nothing should be subtracted from it.