Paul Watson Quotes

But I'm the type of person who, whatever you throw at me, I can make something out of it.

Take whatever happens and try to make it work.

As producers, you always have to go with the flow and be ready to embrace change, and drama and whatever happens.

If you don't have what you need, just rock with what you've got!

One of the most important things a person can learn to do is to make something out of whatever he or she happens to have at the moment.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

So I turned these sort of deficiencies into a, a workable thing if you understand what I mean.

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

My life has always been chaotic. From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together.

Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

If you have no road map, you have to create your own.

In TV, I did scripts that were not well-written, and I learned how to make bad material okay. That's a hard thing to do; you can learn bad habits, but you can also learn to find something in anything.

It doesn't matter what cards you're dealt. It's what you do with those cards. Never complain. Just keep pushing forward. Find a positive in anything and just fight for it.

My folks were very practical. They were also kind of able to think outside of the box. They were not going to let circumstance paralyze them. They knew sometimes you just had to take some new initiative. I think they passed that on to all of us... If you don't find a way, you make one.

If the opportunities are a little limited, then you've got to try to find a way to make something happen the best way you can.

I converted a problem into an opportunity.

I work in response to the limitations of any situation and in relationship to what's possible.

You have two choices: You can take what you're given or build with what you've got. I choose to build with what I've got and try to make the best of it because I've still been given a stage. I've still got cameras in front of my face when I want them, and I plan to run with it.

When life hands you melons, eat them.

It's not about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness .

It's not resources but resourcefulness that ultimately makes the difference.

Instead of saying, ah, I don't have the money, just embrace it and do what we can do. And the scenes that we film and the characterizations in the scenes can come out interesting. And I really feel good about that, going into it.

They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.

I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.