#83 Brian Koppelman: What Really Matters

There's a line in 'Billions' where Bobby Axelrod is making a speech to all of Axe Capital, and he says 'In the great expanse of time, we're already dead' — and that's something that I believe. If you look at the great expanse of time, we're not even a dot.

I made the decision when I was 30 that I was going to follow my curiosity and the things that fascinated me. And as long as I'm doing that, I feel like a version of myself that I want to spend time with.

What I finally realized, Shane, was that if I allowed these creative impulses to die, it would be like a real death, and like any form of death, it would be toxic, and this toxicity would ooze out of me on to those that I loved.

Most folks who've accomplished something great were kind of just unrelenting in their belief. Forget their belief, unrelenting in their determination to do it.

If you can find a way to do work that makes you feel fulfilled... the part of keeping at it becomes much easier.

We, here in our country, put somebody in office [Donald Trump] who is utterly incapable of managing this pandemic [and] utterly disinterested in managing this pandemic ... He has no empathy and no critical thinking skills in this area. He was a guy who portrayed himself as rich and sat on a gold throne, and Americans were fooled.