Quotes About Realization

The thing I realized about final cut is it's the power of the best cut. I didn't have final cut on 'Prisoners,' but what you saw is the best cut. 'Sicario' is a directors' cut. 'Arrival' is a directors' cut.

I never really realized how privileged I was in the way I grew up.

I did not know that I can win the Nobel Prize.

I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.

If I'm being totally honest, I'd pretty much given up on turning pro. I don't think I'd totally given up on the dream, but I'd accepted that it probably wasn't going to happen.

Getting movies developed doesn't do me any good as a producer. It only does me good to get movies made.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

I soon realized that the best thing I could do for the profession of human services was to get out of it.

Even in high school, music was just a really fun thing on the side. I don't think I grasped the fact that it could be a profession.

I used to do some ushering work at the theatre, which was pretty humbling; it made me realise how difficult the profession I'd chosen was going to be.

When I was 16 or 17 I knew I was gay, but knowing and accepting are two very different things.

From the first time I saw them, I knew they weren't just five dirty little boys from Liverpool without an education.

When I was young, I was like, 'I want to want to work with this director and that director'. I've stopped doing that. You put yourself in a place where you get disappointed.

Sometimes you have to make a complete disaster of your life in such an epic way that it will be absolutely clear to you what you've been doing.

I think leadership is not something you learn; it's something you discover.

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

It's really amazing when you discover how strong you actually are and what you really can accomplish.

And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before.

Definitely that's the worst, to discover that something you're doing has already been done.

I discover a lot of things on my own.

I discovered myself!

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

Before I discovered moviemaking, I hadn't found anything where I could kind of galvanize or meld all of the things that I wanted to do.

I did not develop my ear. I discovered I had an ear, and it was an accident.