Quotes About Intensity

My productivity is overwhelming!

Growing up in Britain as a rather loose Jew, the two things that didn't belong together were freedom and religious intensity. In America, they do. The Founding Fathers made a bet that if you didn't force everyone to profess religion in their own particular way, you could protect intellectual freedom, and religion would flourish.

I have always been focused on my job. No profession allows you the luxury of being half-focused. If you're not into it, you're not there. And the film industry is all the more harsh in these cases, perhaps because it's a business of the limelight.

I've got nothing but respect for the guys I compete against, but in the cage it's a different story.

I have a lot of passion for a lot of different things.

I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently.

You only have a week to do a show. I mean, there's only so deep you can dig in that week.

Coming back to Dinosaur Jr. and actually writing songs for the band was really intense for me.

Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like.

When I'm directing a movie, nothing else matters.

For me, all you want from your actor is for them to engage on a deeply emotional level with the material. If you feel like that happens, directing the actors is pretty much done at that point.

When I'm acting, I'm a woman but when I am directing, I am an animal because I am very demanding.

Rock n' roll is dirty, and it's bad, and it's either clever or it's not clever.

I don't feel like we have to be dirty or anything crazy, but as far as competing, there's no limits.

Sometimes you have to be dirty to win some games.

Every team, in some sense, plays dirty. The game of football is dirty.

We all know what my game is, to play hard. Not dirty, but play hard.

I like to disappear in my roles because I don't have an assistant.

Every time we step on the field, we want to score. If we don't, then we're disappointed. We don't settle for three.

We want to go out and bring the house down. Anything short of that, we get disappointed.

English football is very, very difficult. It is very disciplined.

The main events of '205 Live' are always among the discussion as far as top acts of the week in the world.

Us players are supposed to dish it out for 90 minutes.

I have absolutely no rituals or routines other than I work obsessively and think constantly about my work, to the dismay and discomfort of everyone I employ. And my family.