The World Motivation
I sound like an old man when I talk about the Internet, but I am actually worried about what it's doing to our brains and our sense of connection.
“I sound like an old man when I talk about the Internet, but I am actually worried about what it's doing to our brains and our sense of connection.”
— Greta Gerwig · Brains
I sound like an old man when I talk about the Internet, but I am actually worried about what it's doing to our brains and our sense of connection.
The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers.
I've never worked on anything that I haven't in some way enjoyed.
From Rebecca Miller, I took the idea that the director needs to arrive every day an hour ahead of everyone else and walk through the entire day.
It's really hard for me to be around people I admire.
With my children, balance was everything: being not just a workaholic, not only studying but taking time to renew and restore yourself and taking time to pay attention to your brain health and not assume, as we all do, that our brains are perfect.
When I was 15, I decided to take up the sport seriously, so I went down to the Y.M.C.A. My first day there, this little Italian guy beat my brains out. I decided to quit. Then I realized I really wanted to be a fighter. I worked at it, went back, and that little Italian guy didn't beat me up no more.
People are happiest when they're the most productive. People enjoy tasks, especially creative tasks, when the tasks are in the optimal-challenge zone: not too hard and not too easy. To some extent, that has always been true. But it becomes even more true as work becomes more about brains and creativity.
Movies aren't machines. They interact with our brains.