Simone Giertz Quotes

There are decisions I could have made, moves I could have made, that would have got me seen more. I do it because I enjoy the craft and the challenge of trying to make something that doesn't exist come alive, and that's what I'm in it for.

I want to be able to say, 'you think you're odd, I'm even odder and I made it - you can too!' I want to direct, do more with 'The Dance Scene,' sign artists and just provide opportunities. I'm just getting started and having the time of my life!

My career has suddenly started to be the one that I'd always wanted, not in terms of level of success, but in terms of - and this is what I've been banging on about - playing different parts in different media.

My entire adult life has been devoted to family and career, each adding to the other in many rewarding ways. I have never felt that I had to set a pattern for my writing and teaching.

I'm going to continue doing what I want to do. And if it means I want to go and make a big movie, if it has something to say, I will want to make it. I don't want to spend my life wasting my time. If it's a big movie, I want to do it. If it's a small movie, I want to do it.

Doing something because it's quote-unquote a good career move doesn't really appeal to me.

But I want to do good work, after this series.

I don't want to just be fully rapping my whole life.

I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.

My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.

I hope to have a long career, and I don't want to be defined by things that aren't the music.

I always wanted my work to speak for itself, and have opportunities to do interesting work and not just puff pieces.

My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.

There's not anyone in particular I'd like to work with. I just want to continue doing work that I have a passion for.

What career? A man's got a body of film of about four movies in about 10 years or something. I do it because I think I can do a good job of something and I'll enjoy it, do it, and sort of vanish. I don't want to be an actor for hire.

And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.

My dream isn't running a studio or doing anything managerial in any way, shape, or form.

Getting on 'SNL' wasn't just about getting cast. I had written all this stuff in my audition, and I wrote several things that got on the air. But to me, I've never been interested in being picked. So when I do get sent things, most of the time I do pass on them because it doesn't feel like it would be fulfilling.

When you have a job you know you'd do for free, it takes a lot of the pressure away to be successful at it. So if it's doing theater in New York or teaching acting, I'm down for all of it.

As long as I can make the films I want to make in decent conditions, I am happy.

I always want to do things in my career that would make people proud.

It seems like a gross waste of time to continue our career predicated on the idea that we're going to divide opinion. What's more important is just doing something that you love.

I don't want to plan my career. That would be a business plan. Filmmaking is not a business plan.

My ambitions are to be the Stoke number one and England number one, but there are other things I want to achieve in my career as well.

It's important to be successful, and not just because there is competition, but also because it leads to better work for you.