Max Joseph Quotes

I am a day dreamer. I visualise a lot of things at the same time.

Sometimes doing a movie for a short period of time is better than committing eight months to a television show.

Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind.

I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.

You have to fix everything all at the same time. You cannot deal with one problem to the exclusion of all the others.

It's good to have fantasies and creative fantasies, especially.

In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life.

It's incredible how my life has so many things happening at the same time.

I did 'The Avengers.' 'Marco Polo' happened at the same time for me. So working that schedule out was a bit of an issue, but I was fortunate enough to make both things work.

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.

The good thing about writing books is that you can dream while you are awake. If it’s a real dream, you cannot control it. When writing the book, you are awake; you can choose the time, the length, everything. I write for four or five hours in the morning and when the time comes, I stop. I can continue the next day. If it’s a real dream, you can’t do that.

But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up in my mind and so making a perpetual pageant, which is to be my happiness.

In any case, suffice it to say I enjoyed hearing about faraway places. I had stocked up a whole store of these places, like a bear getting ready for hibernation. I'd close my eyes, and streets would materialize, rows of houses take shape. I could hear people's voices, feel the gentle, steady rhythm of their lives, those people so distant, whom I'd probably never know.

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another.

I just close my eyes and I fantasize what I would like to see.

Being liberated means reading what you want to read, and fantasizing about what you want to fantasize about.

Write about it by day and dream about it by night.

For three months, a person sits and looks at you, imagining a kiss.

You do sometimes have to work on things where you love the cast and you love the filmmaker, and the role might not be great but it's fun. I'm totally down to do those things, and will continue to do those things, as well, but it at least has to be peppered with roles that are really interesting and that are hard.

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.

There's some of Romeo's romance in me... I romanticise a lot of things in my mind.

Still, these days when I daydream about the movie, I don't think about the big picture. It's more fun for me to think of little things that would add to the movie. I like to think the powers that be would let me amuse myself with some small things in order to shut me up while they re-write the screenplay to turn Kvothe into a lesbian, shape-changing unicorn.

I respect BMW for not interfering in these projects. They're just trying to support short films with their brand, which I think is great.

You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.

Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.