Quotes About Uncertainty

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

You never know in a movie if it's going to be a sequel, but right now I'm proud of what we produced.

I will never become a director or a movie producer. I was always looking at picture directing because I didn't know what to do! You can't be a movie director without real preparation.

Whenever any actor comes into a producer session, they have so many questions, and we still can't really tell them that much until they get the job.

Producers get very jittery about things.

I feel like I could be good at directing or producing, but I don't know.

It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that's really good.

When you're relegated to go from movie to movie, so much of what you're doing is out of your control beyond creating the product.

The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.

My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.

This is the profession I chose, and you really learn to save your money because you never know how it's going to go, but you still want to get out there and work.

When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, it was like saying I wanted to be an astronaut. Not because it was highfalutin' in any way - just because they didn't know anybody in that field. They were anxious of a profession they knew nothing about.

I'm in a profession where if you're planning more than six months ahead, you're doing it wrong!

I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional baseball player, but I got injured in college. When I decided to move out to L.A. to try acting, nobody was betting on me, not even my family.

I always look so different in different roles, people are never quite sure. Which is the way I like it.

If you have something at risk, you think differently.

This is really a difficult time to be in films.

Those first few overs are obviously the most difficult time because you don't know what the ball is going to do in the air and off the seam.

Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.

Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.

The lesson was an Absa Cape Epic can go all directions: to the good and to the bad.

Football goes fast but it can go quickly in both directions.

I don't even know if I can call myself a director.