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Muller: Photography Is Safe from AI Because Image Generation Requires Base Photos
“Fortunately, photography's not something that you're at risk, and here's, here's the why. To do AI and to make the cat swimming on the lake with Brad Pitt, you need those photos. You need a photo of a cat. You need a photo of the lake. You need a photo of Brad…”
Muller: Aspiring artists should avoid instruction from commercially failed teachers
“I feel like if you're in art, I mean, even real estate, it's like, listen, there's very few things that feel like you need to go to a room and be taught the rules and tell someone that most likely did not make it as that profession. So that's why they're teach…”
Muller: Multiple people receive identical ideas simultaneously, so execution decides winners
“In my opinion, when I have an idea, I believe seven other people on the planet, 10 other people getting that same idea at the same time, who's gonna act on it first?”
Muller: Generational wealth destroys families and strips children of ambition
“Generational wealth that just destroys family and make, they don't have that fire to, you know, go and get, get it from them because everything's given to them.”
Muller faked newspaper credentials for four years to access concerts
“I lied, and for four years I went to all, every concert that came through Northern California in the Bay Area I, if I wanted to go to, I went to it, and got the laminate, and I called and I said I was shooting for the Contra Costa Times, or the Contra Costa Su…”
Muller: Achieving celebrity fame leads exclusively to public scrutiny and downfall tracking
“Once you achieve fame or notoriety or whatever, it's over. It is over because all they're waiting for now is for you to fuck up.”
Muller: Amazon and Paramount Cut Hundreds of Marketing Employees Post-Strike
“They fired, Amazon fired 800 people, Paramount fired 700, all the marketing teams.”
Muller: Wedding photography teaches high-pressure group direction needed for movie casts
“Weddings are amazing because where else are you going to get the opportunity to practice shooting 30 people and directing, you know, how do you get practice to shoot a cast of a movie? Or when you do those big, you know, big groups of people. Okay, and then yo…”
Muller: The brain cannot simultaneously panic and focus on breathing
“Your brain can't do two things at once. It can't say, get out, and breathe. They cannot occupy the same space.”
Muller plans to give away all wealth instead of leaving an inheritance
“I've always said, like, you know, I, if I make a tremendous amount of wealth, I'm giving it all away. I'm not leaving it for my daughter's kids.”
Muller: I treat Hollywood stars like everyone else and never kiss ass
“I've always approached everyone those handsome men in Hollywood, you get the same attention as they get from me. You share the same son they do. I'm not impressed by them, you know, and I think that's why I'm, Friends with a lot of them because I don't kiss th…”
Publisher Benedict Taschen rejects all 2,500 unsolicited book submissions he receives monthly
“He has 2500 submissions a month. And he said, we say no to every single one of them.”
Muller: Raised $7M for VR from an energy investor
“And I did this with my VR. I raised, you know, seven million dollars to shoot VR with none from a guy who does LNG. Has never invested in anything remotely, entertainment or anything.”
Muller holds four patents on custom underwater strobe lights
“Most powerful underwater strobe lights in the world. And I got four patents on them.”
Muller: Huberman's lab found Yoga Nidra induces conscious theta brainwaves
“Yoga nidra is a form of meditation. My buddy Huberman, Andrew Huberman, the neuroscience guy, his team studied it. Couple years ago, and found that you get to Theta while conscious.”
Muller: When shown 100 photos, people will always laser in on the bad one
“You put up on the monitor, a hundred photos. If I put up a hundred photos of you, and 99 of them are fucking, sorry my language, are just amazing. And then there's one where your chin was in, you have a double chin. You know which one you're going to? You know…”