The Gaslight Anthem is very streamlined. We don't usually use organs and strings and things like that.
Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.
But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play.
When I'm scoring something like a string quartet, it's all notated music, so it's meticulously written in the score, which is very different than doing things by ear.
Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.
Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.
I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
Studio films are really fun. You have months and months to shoot. With the smaller films you get to be on a much more intimate set and have to get things done quickly.
In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.
I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make.
I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage my ideas and energies.
I've done a few celebrity-related things, and I think on the first one - about Mick Jagger - I got stung and was not able to make the film I wanted to make.
In our case, one of my earliest experiences working in the company was being asked to be on Ted Turner's board, and I saw that the value creation from owning networks was stunning - new channels, international opportunities, synergy, many things that Turner Broadcasting built for decades.
People going off on politics on Grindr is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. That's an immediate sign to run in the other direction.
I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
I do very well three things: my job, stupidities and children.
I do like trying bold things such as styling, even usually.
Stylistically, things are becoming cooler. People are trying different things and combining genres.
Stylistically, we do so many different things.
I kind of think we sort of subconsciously draw things into our lives, whatever we're trying to work through.
