Quotes About Career

I think I could take a job as an NFL scout.

I was a model scout. I was never a model, but they just dropped the scout.

If I had gotten the parts in 'Scream' or 'I Know What You Did Last Summer,' I would not have been very good in them, and I would've squandered whatever success I had gotten because I wasn't ready for that sort of thing. So I feel grateful for all of the years that I have behind me trying to get traction and a career.

'Basha' is the best screenplay in my career.

There's a place for art in the world, but it can't be at the top of the list for a working screenwriter.

I started acting when I was really young. I knew I wanted to be in the industry in other ways. I knew that I wanted to do more than just act. I don't know that I knew it was screenwriting, but I just knew that I wanted to be involved.

At the end of the day, if you're living by fear, you're gonna get screwed in Hollywood.

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

From 'Polytechnique,' I started to get scripts and after 'Incendies,' of course, it exploded.

I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.

I think I have been stereotyped as an action director in Hollywood, so all I got were the action scripts.

If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.

Good scripts, which are apt for me, eventually come to me.

I do try to look at scripts and keep an eye out for challenging roles.

My brother advises me on what kind of films to do, which directors to work with and which scripts have potential.

I choose films based on scripts.

If I get good films, I would definitely do them. But most of the stuff that I get is not good at all. They were not good scripts.

Every time I think I'd want a huge, huge career, I realize I'd go crazy under that kind of scrutiny.

If I couldn't be an actor, I would only consider being an astronaut, a sea otter, or a gynecologist.

I tell my kids, 'Don't do well in school, and you, too, can end up at sea.'

People still remember Sean Penn as Spicoli from 'Fast Times At Ridgemont High,' and if I can have, like, one-10th of his career, then I'm fine.

I was only 26 when I started my career. Those days I only wanted to work. When my films did not work, I didn't know what to do. But I never went to anyone for work. Work came in search of me.

I've never been on a show that's run for more than a season.

I was at Roma for two years, had two great seasons there, and everyone told me to stay, but it was in my mind to come and be successful in England.