“I was talking to Spike Jonze the other day, and he was like, 'Yeah, I'm not really doing anything right now. My rule is, if it's not more fun than going surfing, I'm not gonna do it.' I love when I say no to everything.”— Aziz Ansari, gq.comTagged: Artists, Creation, Spike Joneze, My aesthetic, Quote of the Moment
“I don't need to make more stuff. I've made a lot of stuff! I'm financially okay. I'm not gonna make stuff just for the sake of making stuff. I want to make stuff ’cause I'm inspired. Right now I don't really feel inspired.”— Aziz Ansari, gq.comTagged: Artists, Creation, How to be a writer, Career, The writing life
“Can you imagine if someone called us a few years ago and said, ‘All right, you're going to have this much money when you're this age. What are you gonna do with it?’ You would say all sorts of fantastical things, right? No one would say, Oh, I would figure out how to make more money and keep working…”— Aziz Ansari, gq.comTagged: Artists, Creation, How to be a writer, Money, Career
“Whenever you check for a new post on Instagram or whenever you go on The New York Times to see if there's a new thing, it's not even about the content. It's just about seeing a new thing. You get addicted to that feeling.”— Aziz Ansari, gq.comTagged: News, Media, Entertainment, The Digital Age
“I was reading all this Trump stuff, and it doesn't feel like we're reading news for the reason we used to, which was to get a better sense of what's going on in the world and to enrich yourself by being aware. It seems like we're reading wrestling rumors. It's like reading about what happened on Mon…”— Aziz Ansari, gq.comTagged: News, Media, Entertainment, The Digital Age
“I'm not choosing ignorance. I'm choosing to not watch wrestling.”— Aziz Ansari, gq.comTagged: News, Media, Entertainment, The Digital Age