Jimmy Smits Quotes

Instead of playing something heavily, I play it lightly. Since people like to cast cyclically, once you've done one thing, people want to put you in that bag again. And since I want to work, I let it happen.

Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.

When you are not working in TV and primarily doing film, you're working with one director for a long period of time, so getting to work with 12 different directors in the span of six months is incredible.

More and more, I play myself, as I get older. Even as a writer, I never got typecast. I've always bounced from project to project, or initiated my own things. I was never known as the guy who wrote romantic comedies or sci-fi, or whatever, but that's fun to me. The first two films I ever had made, as a writer, were both thrillers, which was great. There was nothing funny about either of them, or not intentionally. I actually love that.

I don't want to ever be categorized. I want to be able to hit every genre.

Moviemaking is a dirty, tiring affair. The joy comes from the possibility to be free on set and really let loose.

I don't want to commit to too many films, as it would result in getting out of touch with what is happening in the industry.

I feel that the smallness of the filmmaking environment is somehow connected to the freedom of creating film.

It feels as though, with all of these cable series or Internet shows or limited series events that are only 10 or 13 episodes... the quality is really rising.

I don't chalk out my career thinking that I want to first do serious drama, then a comedy or an action. I take the best of what's available and only if it interests me.

It's not fun for an actor to be pigeonholed in any way.

So as long as I can do something like this kids show or I can go off and film polar bears or I can do some radio and stuff, and sort of keep other strings in my bow working, then it's good.

I'm really not opposed to playing anything as long as it's a story that I want to tell.

I am a little wary of entering another situation where I would just be another director for hire and I've been doing this in one form or another since I was twenty-two doing documentaries for PBS and HBO.

I don't like to limit myself as an actress.

Obviously 'Stranger Things' has given me the launching pad to have creative license for whatever I want, and I love doing the show, but when it comes to music, I want to distance myself as much as possible.

When you come to the end of a TV project, it's good to be able - and I'm kind of lucky - that I can just go into a different medium, make another album, or do whatever.

Ideally, it's great to gain inspiration from the script, but when filming starts, characters and their journeys can change.

I love this freedom that has been given to me as an artist to express myself.

One of the great things about working for Netflix is that they haven't placed any restrictions on content or artistically.

I've had experience in management and TV and hope to be able to lend some of that to TNA and maybe persuade some wrestlers to come in this direction because of the influence I've had on their careers in the past.

If I want to do an orchestral record, if I want to do an acoustic record, if I want to do a death-metal record, if I want to do a jazz record - I can move in whichever direction I want, and no one is going to get upset about that. Except maybe my manager and my record company.

NBC has not once given me a music note. I get the freedom to do what I want, and that's kind of amazing.

I don't have any limitations that I only want to do serious films. I am trying to break that image but not very consciously.

I have friends who say, 'I don't want to do period now because I have done a period piece and I need to wait for two years' - I don't have that.