Born on June 11th

"In the field of wisdom & life, the path to true wisdom begins when we question the certainties we have carried since childhood."

"Wisdom is the quiet space we cultivate between our thoughts, where clarity finally speaks. As a philosopher & thinker, this is the foundational truth I have observed."

"We seek truth not to change the world around us, but to clarify the lens through which we view it."

"If you give the audience what they want when they want how they want it, they won't steal it."

"When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things."

"The future of the television industry is changing at an unstoppable rate, and it is exciting to share my experience and thoughts on how this will change the value of content in the digital space."

"You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south."

"I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office."

"I don't know if I'd do well in a structured, corporate environment. I'm very open. I share everything. I don't care. I don't have anything to hide. I'm very transparent that way."

"I've got to be out doing a million things. That's how I find stories. That's how I get the relationships and get the projects that I get with the writers, the directors."

"For any book, it's distilling all of the moments in the book that are either fan favorites or pivotal that you have to have in there, and how you tie that all up into a two hour movie is not the easiest job."

"You can learn a lot from somebody's video bio: if you're not going to gel with the actor or a crew."

"If you're clever enough and creative enough to get a good film made, then you should be clever enough and creative enough to find ways to get it out there, one being something like Jameson First Shot."

"Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself."

"Everybody is always going to have haters. It comes with the job. You have to have a tough skin and not let it affect you."

"Between Twitter and Facebook, early word of mouth for a film can destroy it immediately or take something you've never heard of and make it a huge hit."

"The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that."

"You can get any film now basically for free, and that's where I think the model we're talking about is - if you give people what they want, how they want it and when they want it, they're more likely to pay for it."

"You talk about Steve Jobs when he came out with the iPhone, and everyone thought it was amazing: you touch it and move the screen."

"I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond."

"When you go in for any life rights, you always ask, 'Who would you have play this person, or who would you have direct?'"

"What I find most exciting about online video is that it's the future."

"The production value of YouTube videos is not there."

"The power lies with content creators now, but if you can't reach people, there's no point."

"There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table."

"If I had the opportunity to buy the latest movie that's out that month and watch it on the comfort of my big screen TV, I would pay for that."

"I hardly ever go to the movies."

"The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine."

"How we get power, how cars are powered, when the technology and resources to have something that is infinitely better, we still use old-school technology. We're still using that same exact structure."

"We all thought we'd have flying cars by now, but we don't."