Quotes About Balance

You have to find the balance of figuring out how can I be effective? How can I use my platform for good, you know, without jeopardizing everything so that I don't have that platform anymore.

The more space and emptiness you can create in yourself, then you can let the rest of the world come in and fill you up.

I think you have to go and fill your cup and do so diversely; otherwise, then you burn out.

A series is filled with compromises.

I'm at a time in my life where I'm so filled up that I don't want more.

I knew what I liked, but I was never really obsessed with filling my life with music.

I don't really like filling my brain with a lot of stuff.

I do enjoy doing both film and television.

In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.

Many of my friends are not in the film industry, and I feel like it's healthy. It's not totally by choice. It is, perhaps, people I connect with.

I don't feel that my marriage has anything to do with my career. It never hampers anyone's career in the film industry.

Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.

After film school, I would write 8 hours a day on film and 8 hours a night on TV, and then sleep once and a while.

I could be equally happy on a film set or in the middle of a field.

A lot of the time, excess on a film set is just damaging.

When you're filming, you work 19-hour days, and you know more about what's going on with your crew and co-workers than you do with your husband.

When I'm not filming, I do rock n' roll; when I'm not doing rock n' roll, I do filming.

If we're not shooting, if we're not filming, if you're not standing on the soundstage, turn off your phone and go live your life.

I only get home two or three weeks a year. I'm always on the road filming.

I can very much relate to being on the road and filming and trying to train. It's a whole different ball game.

I've tried watching shows before while I'm filming and it doesn't go good because I binge-watch all night and then I wake up with like one hour of sleep on my filming day.

Before I got hurt, I was on the road five days a week and then I'd come home for a day and a half. And some of those times, I'd be filming Total Divas, so at some point I was working seven days a week, which I was cool. I loved it.

We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.

For me, filmmaking is not exactly a career. I was never in it for Hollywood or anything. My films are markers of where I am in life, where I am in my head. So that's what I'm working on, and I try to keep things in proportion - life and filmmaking. One feeds into the other.