Quotes About Passion

I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has to something move over that and somehow become personal to the director.

To hell with the cost, if it's a good story, I'll make it.

A good place to start initially would be school plays.

It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.

I used to paint and I used to draw, and I probably would have loved to have been a portrait painter if I'd been good enough, but I really wasn't good enough.

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

My good friend Josh Bibby happens to be a pro skier and has used my music in 2 international ski films.

If you're going to make a movie for ten thousand you can talk everybody into doing it for free. You could make a really good-looking movie right for ten grand, if you have an idea.

Passion paralyzes good taste.

The script comes first. If that isn't good enough, you know it's gonna be a long ride.

I like the idea of baking. I'd like to be good at it. But I feel like I'm young and one day I can be.

If music became extinct now, I dont know what Id be good for.

you got to want it to be good, and I don't want it.

I think that's in my case everything I do takes so long because I don't have one direction. I'm just doing what I feel at the moment. It would probably be good, though, to have some direction.

We both [with Alixandra Kolesky MacKenzie] got into ceramics, you might say, by the back door. Looking back on it, I think this was a very good thing.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.

Don't depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that's what makes the difference.

I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.

Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,--or, in other words, when his HOBBY-HORSE grows head- strong,--farewell cool reason and fair discretion.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

You know what makes your heart swift, you know what makes your breath catch your throat, you know what makes your chest tight with anticipation. Go get that!