Be Courageous

There's a certain spirit where you just say, 'This may not work, but I'm going to do it anyway.' There's a sense when you're doing something that it may not work, but you do it anyway. Whatever I was really into, I would just go do it, and I didn't care what anyone else thought, because often people would just say, 'You're crazy.' When I started doing What the Bleep, I talked to people in the movie industry, and they all just rolled their eyes. Before that, I had written software and had computer companies, which is where I got the money to make the movie, and they were like, 'Oh yeah, another Silicon Valley nerd who thinks he can make movies,' and they just rolled their eyes. I was like, 'Okay, whatever,' and I just went on. I didn't care what other people thought. We got What the Bleep done, and of course, we showed it to distributors, but no one would distribute the film, so we did it ourselves. No distributor would touch it. At that point, it was like, 'Well, I guess we're going to distribute it ourselves.'