Tom McCarthy Quotes

I've spent about that amount of time trying to tell the public that there was purpose in... my business, my career and the roller coaster ride... how the people I associated with worked together.

It strikes me every time I do an interview that I don't really sit around thinking about my goals and my life and my career. I do what I love doing and I get a lot of feedback. I'm free as a bird, you know? If I do something good, it's, 'Wow, that was brilliant,' and if I do something bad, it just goes away.

I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.

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.

I love being able to work with other artists I admire, but I have a lot to do on my own before I am willing to make it all about embracing other people.

I am always mission driven, and I always ask myself what I want to be working on, what project excites me the most. I figure that out and then find the best place to do that work.

Since I was 9 years old, I have been working, hustling to find my own projects - from telenovelas to record deals, etc. etc. Way before I met my husband.

I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

My career has been my craziest adventure.

I guess I reinvented myself about 18 times throughout my career.

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.

I like to make decisions based on things I'm interested in doing, not what seems like the next move in my quote-unquote career.

I have been in control of what I've been doing, of the career I've put together.

We, as individuals, must be responsible for our careers with the goal of reaching our highest potential. The job of a manager is to tap into that energy that's already there.

I wanna keep creating those situations for myself so I don't have to be out front all the time. Then when I do have to be out front, I can do it to the max.

I just want to try and be in projects that are exciting to me.

Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them.

I always have looked for the best challenge, I guess, that I could take on. I haven't been producing my own work or anything like that, so I've taken the jobs that look most interesting that come my way.

I wish I had more control over my career, but making movies is something you do with lots of people.

I'm interested in long careers where you take detours.

It's not my goal to make so many movies. It's just sort of a natural process, and I'm just doing my job. And I'm not tied to any genre; I'm willing to do anything. I just keep going.

I just like to stay busy, and I like to work with interesting people.

I trust the team around me to guide my career in the right direction, I just do the fighting.

I sift through the scripts offered to me and see what is worth attempting, because I think there is no point in wasting your time in doing something which you are not too keen on. I try and do whatever I feel interested in.