If you want to create something that's worth doing you have to self-edit from the get-go. You really must be careful and selective with whom you work, you must constantly ask yourself the hard questions about your art, and you must set a nearly unattainable standard for yourself.
I've always remembered. This fellow said to me - if you think someones'doing you wrong, it's not for you to judge. Kill them first and then God can do the judging.
You know, being an entrepreneur is super hard work, and if you're not passionate about what you're doing, you're probably not going to succeed.
Every artist, to me, should know why they're doing what they're doing. You shouldn't create simply because it sounds good to you. That's not a real response to me.
If you are small and don't particularly want credit for what you are doing, you can achieve a lot.
I'm not sure you're quite sensible of the honor I'm doing you," Jace said. "you'll be the first mundane who has ever been inside the Institute. " "Probably the smell keeps the rest of them away. " - Simon, 133
Joy is the wild card of life; it supersedes every other formula for success. If you can find a way to create joy, you can rise beyond all external factors. If you can play at whatever you are doing, you are the master of your life.
The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.
When the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing. . . you are doing what you were meant to be doing.
If you’re not passionate about what you’re doing, you need to stop doing it. You aren’t living your truth.
Speaking as somebody who's been in the drug scene, it's not something you can go on and on doing, you know. It's like drink, or anything, you've got to come to terms with it. You know, like too much food, or too much anything. You've got to get out of it. You're left with yourself all the time, whatever you do--you know, meditation, drugs or anything. But you've got to get down to your own god and your own temple in your head.
To evoke the classic period of Italian cinema in a little film seemed like a great, fun thing to do. I had relations to that period. I had known Fellini and I had known Antonioni. I had made a movie with Antonioni and I had visited Fellini in his studios. So, it seemed like something worthwhile doing. You bring yourself to that mythical cinema.
If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
Even when I didn't know anything else about where I was or what I was supposed to be doing. You were my Wayward, even then. Everything always brought me back to you. Everything.
If you don't get a kick out of the job you're doing you'd better hunt for another one.
Your body loves you, but if you do not love your life, it will end it far sooner, thinking it is doing you a favor.
The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor.
If you do not enjoy what you are doing, you will never be good at it.
As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong. That's what I find with acting. As soon as it becomes padded, it becomes pat.
As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.
