Ciaran Hinds Quotes

I believe you have to make things happen.

I was very fortunate in the '70s to work with the best actors, the best directors, the best cinematographers.

I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with scriptwriters, producers and directors.

I do tend to be a leader in situations in my own life.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Because actors don't get to pick movies; movies pick the actors.

If you want to ride the sled, pull it up the hill.

Take destiny in your own hands.

You throw a rock in Hollywood and you're going to hit someone in the film industry.

No one works with an actor or a director for friendship.

I love working with nonactors.

Let me be the one To do what is done.

Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story

If you don't act on life, life will act on you

People often call and say: "Can you help me to get Bill Murray in our movie." But I'm always like, "well I don't know how to do that!" I've sometimes tried and not been able to get him but then I'll suddenly be very surprised by the thing that he will suddenly decide to do.

It is the job of the editors to find somebody. I'm sorry, but you have to get out there and find them.

For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.

My father instilled in me that if you don't see things happening the way you want them to, you get out there and make them happen.

You need names to get the movie made.

I wanted to work on a cable show and with a writer/director because that's a much more fulfilling and freeing experience, as an actor.

Bud [Yorkin] was the kindest and dearest man, and one of the most talented directors there was.

Don't wait to be picked. Pick yourself.

It is better to ask for an apology than to ask for permission.

If you don't live in the world of choosing, you live in the world of excusing.

I had to do something," she said. "I couldn't just sit and wait for life to happen to me any longer.