Quotes About Fulfillment

If you're just focused on work, my view is that you'll never get enough back from any organization, no matter how fantastic the role is, and you have to have a full life so that you really get enriched in a lot of different ways, and that can be family and kids. It can be, for others, sports.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

Guy asked me, 'Scat, what is there left for you to do?' And I said, 'A Broadway play, man!' Can you dig it? That's the only thing I never done. I'd like to say I had.

The dignity we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives.

My life has a great degree of dimension without making movies.

Being happy in a relationship isn't the be all and end all to feeling confident, but it definitely gives it another dimension.

If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.

My real passion is to make movies, to direct. It's good for my ego to be an actress. It's like someone is saying, 'Yes, you're beautiful! Yes, you're doing fine!' But I feel like a child when I'm an actress.

Directing is much more satisfying to me than acting.

I find directing more satisfying.

If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job.

I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.

I loved acting, and then acting led to writing, and writing led to directing, and directing lead to five movies, and I feel like the luckiest guy in the world.

Directing feels great; I'm really happy to be doing this.

I discovered that my biggest passion was for directing, so in making opportunity for myself, I found what I like doing the best.

Directing is literally what I've always wanted to do, ever since I was a kid. So I love the career I've built behind the camera.

I completely love directing.

Everyone wants to be loved; everyone wants to know where they're going in life; everyone wants to have a sense of direction and feel the next day is going to be better than today. We just all deal with it in a different way.

There's satisfaction and contentment in direction.

I would do a sort of violence to myself if I didn't express myself in the directly creative ways of writing, both words and music.

I need creative satisfaction and only then I can move in as a director.

I think the dirtiest word in the English language is retirement. When you do that, you get old and you get sick and you die.

I have so many other things going on that if 'A Dirty Shame' is my last movie, that's OK.

I think starting a cinema career late in life has more advantages than disadvantages.