Quotes About Passion

At Pixar, we believe strongly that filmmakers should develop ideas they are passionate about. This may sound like a no-brainer, but in fact in Hollywood, the big movie studios have whole departments devoted to acquiring and developing projects that will only later be paired with a director-for-hire.

I played drums since I was 6 years old. And then I got into producing music when I was about 16 or 17. Somebody showed me FL Studios, the program. My beats were bad at first, but then eventually they started to get good.

I never thought I could be an actor, as I was always a studious geek and was always interested in mathematics.

I didn't study; I live.

I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.

I started making my own short films as a way of being able to give myself something to do and to study my craft.

By the time I finished school, I found out I wasn't qualified to study anything but music.

Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic school study is a different thing. I can't quite grasp that.

I never wanted to study art. And I don't think you need to study art if you are an artist. It's even dangerous to go to school. You need to do whatever you want, as you want.

You have to think about what you want to do. There is nothing to say that you should study from the age of 20 to 23. I learnt more on a film set at 17 than in the classroom.

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

I feel lucky in that I don't really have to go to college to study something job-specific. I just want to go to learn about what is interesting to me and learn about the classes that you don't really get to take in high school because you have to take the basics.

I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.

I encourage the study of music. And the immersion. 'Cause my life has been so enriched by being involved in music as I have.

I never went to school to study acting, so I'm doing this purely on feeling, and I give it my all.

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

I didn't study acting.

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.

The study of music was a family interest.

I would love to study photography.

When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.

I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't until high school when I started acting in plays that it became a thought of something I might want to do. And when I applied to colleges, at NYU, I was able to study both writing and acting.

I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.