Quotes About Passion

I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

I've always been a good student, made good enough grades to do well, and enjoyed a lot of different subjects. It wasn't until I went to architecture school, though, that I really loved school work.

Film-makers are greedy people - we want good stories and good subjects.

It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I don't choose my subjects, they kind of choose me.

I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.

I write plays about big, intense subjects.

I actually wanted to be a forensic scientist for a while. When I was doing my Standard Grades, three of them were science subjects. The interest in science didn't wear off, but I found other interests.

A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.

You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.

About Grade 9 and Grade 10, I had a fantastic drama teacher, and it was one of the first subjects I actually felt that I was good at. I wasn't a mathematician. Didn't like science, any of those subjects. English and Drama were the two subjects that I loved and felt that I was good at.

I get passionate about certain subjects, and then I'll write a whole play around it.

I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure.

To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.

In school, some of my favorite subjects... I mean, art was my favorite subject. I loved art! I used to go during lunch time to the art room and paint or draw or something.

From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science books that I read avidly.

I want to make serious work that engages with serious subjects. I'm very lucky: I get to more or less make what I want.

Certainly, I'm excited by epic subjects. It doesn't particularly frighten me.

The problem is, you see, I've just got so many subjects I want to direct.

If you look at my career... I couldn't possibly have chosen those subjects if I was thinking, 'That's a great commercial idea.' I'm not aware of a great musical where someone has done that.

I will always face the conundrum that the subjects I'm attracted to aren't essentially commercial.

I make movies on the subjects that excite me.

Sciences were not my favourite subjects at school. I preferred English, drama, music, and history.

In the end, music was the only option open to me. It was a blessing I pursued it. I put all my energies into it. I didn't care about no other subjects.