Quotes About Passion

I don't go for films that exalt violence. I don't want them in my house. Sometimes my children see them. But nowadays they do it so truthfully and with so much passion that you are shocked.

I'm someone who has always been quite clear about what I like. In the studio, I'm not a control freak but I know what I want.

I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore.

Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. Anything at all .... as long as you tell the truth.

I go where the story leads. And, sometimes, it is a little bit outrageous. And I relish that. I sort of want to be as much on the edge as I can.

I'm always reading plays, and when I find something that I really want to do, then I'll make the time to do it.

If I weren't acting, I think I'd want to be a professional hockey player.

I do write my own music, and I also have been doing a lot of non-Beatle covers, just singing whatever I want to sing, the way I want to sing. But it can be hard to find the time to do that.

Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's not OK to pretend that your desires don't matter.

The movie that made me want to make movies was "Blue Velvet."

My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.

I'm a big believer that if there's something you really want to do, don't walk away because of the deal.

I'm most alive when I'm on set. Whether I'm imagining it on my head, I know what I want to capture.

I suppose I do have one embarrassing passion- I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately.

My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.

I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.

There are no laws, no boundaries on feelings.We can love each other as much and as deeply as we want.No one, Maya, no one can ever take that away from us.

It's not really important to make skillful movies. I think expressing yourself really well, skill-wise, is not as important. I want it to be sort of raw and rough but new and fun to watch.

Leaving stage with a bloody scalp, it's rock & roll, I guess, but I want some hair at the end of the tour.

When I hear that high-pitched sound of all those people screaming together, it's like, I want to get on stage right now. It's the most amazing feeling.

Anybody can do anything he wants to if he wants to do it badly enough.

You're never too young for something you really want to do, never too young to go after your passion. The age doesn't matter at all. If it's something you want to do, it depends on your will.

I probably am. I think Paul Giamatti also said in an interview that I was "f--king crazy." I'm flattered by that. I want to be that guy who's nuts who makes people think.

The only guiding principle you can use is to make something that you want to see.