actually wrote the story in produced indiana Jones and an actually directed
it was at other guy that looks like me
on but
I'll give you two things um one which I've
answered a few times here round the table so I figured I'd share with
everybody
on which is you know how did I end up where am
I and I am when I was in high school
I was a consummate underachiever a
I A heated school I love to build things
I loved woodworking I love working on
cars and engines worked in a foreign car service
and all I wanna do is race cars on
right before graduation I was in a terrible automobile accident
and a.m. was almost killed as a result of that service at a hospital for a long
time thinking about my place in the world
%uh and decided that I would give education another try
Anna took my very bad grades to a junior college
and discovered social science
humanities became very infatuated
with the anthropology and psychology
and suddenly found something I really loved
and I'm did very well
and then 10
graduated now is about to go on to the last two years a college
I'll at SM just a state get a degree in anthropology
my best friend who had grown up with since I was four years old
%uh said you know come up with is to
the to Stockton I have to take that testing get into USC
and I don't want to do it alone and Kandace take
test with makes I got to be the problem is some sites that okay so I went up
there and took the test
nothing can I pass but I did pass than actually got accepted to USC and I
said to my friend well now what am I gonna do I said I really like
anthropology don't think I wanna do that is you have to choose
you want to go to Art Center you really want to be an artist in
you know this is your second choice anthropology and I did I wanted to be in
an artist a photographer I done a lot of a talker fear I wanted to be an
illustrator
my father said there'll be no artists in this family
you know it's a horrible way to make a living and if you are going to be an
artist thing you're going to pay for it
and he knew me well enough to know that I wasn't about to do that
I will take the route at least resistance I did
to them picked up my grades but I was still and consummate
underachiever Anna so he said well you know
SC they've got a a as good Department their photography
so what sounds good news is easier than PE love it
ASM okay maybe I'll do that so went down there
and it was in a school love photography was a school cinematography
there was an actual school cinematography is actually School of
Cinema we learn to make movies
I said this is insane you when you go to university you can learn how to make
movies and hers a silly thing
so a and I had really paid much attention to movies when I was young
answer watch film and television stuff
when soccer Thrace is flyin saucers and you know
virgin required to things like that but I don't know anything about movies
and and I got there my first semester
I don't think a lot I've requirements you know Spanish
science thanks for stepping up sick two classes one was a
history movies on and
grow in a very small town with one movie theater hadn't seen on a movies
and I'm and winning a television tower was 10
so in those days were the main advantages Abena film schools when you
take the history classes and
that she got to see movies you couldn't see it's an amazing thing
the world we live in today you can actually good and was torn is getting
any movie is almost
ever been made you can see it and then you can actually have the filmmaker
you know in the extra bonus disc tell you how they made it everything that's
with your film school was
a secure server roundabout lot of kids that to believe the same thing you did
so I got there and I learned about movies which I really didn't know
anything about
in terms the history movies watching really great movies and I had a
production class introduction to animation where
eventually they gave me one-minute film and they said here
run the camera you know follow these instructions moved to the right move
left move it up
move it down and so I took that little assignment with my one-minute film
I'm a one-minute movie on it I took a lot of us
still photographs in creative collage in a the whole different with
doing animation and put a soundtrack to it
a my professor was unbelievably
impressed with it %uh and blew everybody when the film department
and they sent out to festivals and one like 47 festivals
and I said Wow and how to do this
I'm actually pretty good men to come to anybody here %ah
I love this you know this I want to disrupt my life
and so I was lucky enough to find my path my passion
before that I had passions no I want to be an artist
I want to do build cars only create things
um but
and I liked anthropology I really wanted and was very interested in social
science
very interested in why we do things you where we came from
you all kinds of no mythology
on and I realized
after a few years you know that I went from school made
movies in into be more am but
I realized that I was following a everything I did I was following
something I really cared about
something I loved so there was passion about
and I kept following that passion weather was cars
weather was anthropology weather was art
on photography a.m. and
eventually it led me to my huge bash my real passion
which was making movies which combine all those things and I realize that had
I gone on to get my degree in anthropology I would've probably made
anthropological movies in New Guinea or someplace and eventually
been on National Geographic and you know the History Channel on
the been than making features indicted on
Star Wars just the same if I gone Arts Center
and become an illustrator I would probably started doing animation into an
animated films making animated things and and ultimately not gonna been right
where was
so no matter which way out I took because I cared about all
they all went to the same place had i
done what my father had wished me to do which is to go into these
office equipment missus with them which I knew it wasn't going to I knew he did
that
my life would have been unpleasant
and on so I think it's very important not to do what
your 'em peers think
you should do not do what your parents think you should do
your teachers but to do it you inside
or even your culture thanks but do it inside you
you when I went to films were so we're nuts when he went to film school for
you know you're only does not yet nobody from a film school ever gotten a job in
the film's
just had never happened they were just doomed to be to take your Disneyland
so there was no why would you do that you want you take a
major that you can actually got a job at why do women but
once I fell in love with it there was no going back even though I had absolutely
no chance to make in the film business
and I did the same thing when I and
graduated I move back to San Francisco new we can't make millions times as
we're creating some but i wanna be an elite I don't do that I don't like those
kinda mood on two different movies
and it will fail must never happen
and we managed to make it work in San Francisco
so that's the long story how I got here
a another short story love one thing I discovered along the way
is that several
speaker talked about happiness and
I've discovered a long way that happiness you have you live in two
worlds here
happiness is pleasure and happiness is Julie
you can be the one you add them up an exotic falls into the
Cooper category of happiness pleasure is short-lived
I lasts an hour just a minute last
a month on and it
peaks in goes down pics very hot but the next time you wanna get that same peak
you have to do it twice as much
it's like drugs you know just got to keep doing it to the insulate itself
matter what it is with your shopping with your
you know in gauged in any other kind a pleasure
that all have the same quality about on the other hand is joy
and joy is the thing that doesn't go as high as pleasure
in terms your emotional reaction but
it stays with you joy
I is something you can recall pleasure you can't
so the secret is that even though it's not as intense
as a pleasure the joy will last a lot longer
um and people who get the pleasure they keep saying well if I can just get
richer and more cars you like it however
you'll never relive the moment you got your first car
that's it that's the highest peak yes you can get three for %ah reasoner
new the Gulfstream jet and maybe you get close
but you have to keep going and eventually run out menus can't do it
doesn't work so if you're trying to sustain that level with Pete pleasure
you're doomed it's a very American
idea but it just can't happen you just let it go
peak great pleasures fun great you can keep going forever
just accept the fact that its hearings gone and maybe you can it'll come back
when you get to do it again joy last forever
pleasure is purely self-centered it's all about your
pleasure it's about you it's about is a selfish
self-centered a motion is created by a self-centered motive greed
joy is compassion joy is giving yourself to somebody else
or something else and its a kinda thing that his
in his subtlety in loners much more powerful than pleasure
get hung up on pleasure you're doomed if you
pursue joy you'll find everlasting
happiness so without I'm gone
my thinking