dwlt’s most recent Quotables

It’s always a sign of trouble when you’ve built something you don’t want to use yourself.

At Third Man Records, we don't really care. We just want to create things that we want to see exist and if it breaks even, we're lucky - if not, it doesn't really matter.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

In the beginning I looked around and, not finding the automobile of my dreams, decided to build it myself.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

It's not the audience's dinner party. If they want to pay me money and come, fine. If they don't like it, get the f**k out of here! I'll give their money back. It's my dinner party. I am not a smart person. If it's fun for me and interesting to me and understandable to me, other people have historically found it interesting.

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.

People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

Victory awaits him who has everything in order -- luck people call it. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time; this is called bad luck.

The importance of doing everything you do to your very best. And that the journey is the reward. If you do things well one at a time, you end up in a really good place. Don't get ahead of yourself. Control the things you can.

It's very important that what you do is specific to the medium in which you're doing it, and that you utilise what is specific about that medium to do the work. And if you can't think about why it should be done this way, then it doesn't need to be done.

It takes a lot of work (and rework, and rework and rework) to get it right.

Agencies, departments, and organizations don't do things - people do things. People's names should be on things to foster both accountability and pride.

If you want to be a filmmaker the best thing you can bring to the world is your own story. There’s something that’s very personal to you and that you have your own singular connection to, that if it’s really important to you, there are people all over the planet that will relate to it. The mistakes happen when you try to figure out what everyone likes.

[T]here is simply no point for me - or anyone on my staff - to work hard every day for the purpose of offering guests an average experience.

He is John Lasseter because of a high standard of art, perception and fun that everyone in every language can relate to and enjoy. He surrounds himself with people who share the values and work ethic necessary to maintain that standard — now recognized worldwide as simply Pixar.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

Art challenges technology but technology inspires the art. Often you’ll see a film where it’s been caught up in the technology and it doesn’t captivate. What I learnt from those great Disney animators was that it’s what you do with the technology that matters.

We said: “Let’s write something’s that specific to our own experience.”

Be short. Be bold. Get it done.