The Dwarvenaut Quotes

Stefan Pokorny: I'm pouring everything into this project. I'm not worried to lose it all. I didn't have anything to begin with.

Movie: The Dwarvenaut
Stefan Pokorny: If I worried too much about the future, I never would've started this company. A lot of times if you think about, 'Oh my God, what if I... can't pay this bill... ' or ' Oh my God, what if this doesn't succeed' and 'Oh my God, what if we don't sell enough Lizard Men?' You would be too paralyzed to do anything. So instead, I approach it optimistically, and I say, 'Let's just try as hard as we can; and somehow we'll just get it done.' And that's been what's been happening for 18 years.

Movie: The Dwarvenaut
Stefan Pokorny: I'm extremely stressed out. I'm having a hard time, but I'm doing something I believe in; y'know? That's important in life.

Movie: The Dwarvenaut
Stefan Pokorny: Nothing in the world ever gets done rationally. You gotta be just a little bit nuts and prepared to just go full throttle and try to make it the greatest you can; whether you fail or succeed. A meeker heart will be, 'that's insanity' and that person will never do anything great. The fear of failure is hard. Survival is not guaranteed in this game.

Movie: The Dwarvenaut
Stefan Pokorny: What's money? Money is just paper. What matters is that you do something you enjoy in life, because that *is* your life. It's not what's gonna happen 20 years or 30 years down the road; but what matters - you are what you are. You are what you do. That becomes you. So, hopefully you do something you enjoy... y'know? So, I'm doing what I enjoy, for as long as I can do it.

Movie: The Dwarvenaut