Rodrigo Santoro Quotes

In 1965, I was teaching a seminar on freedom when I told my students that the ultimate freedom lay in casting a dice to decide what to do. They were so shocked and fascinated that I knew I had to write the book.

No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere.

You don't know what's gonna happen, so you can't really plan: you can only go with it.

You cannot plan what is going to happen. You cannot plan your life.

Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan.

We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.

My life has never been a part of a big plan. It's more of an unfolding adventure.

My plan is to have no plan. If you know what plan you have, life has its own ideas and will take you in any direction it pleases. So my idea about life is to just be open to it and to go with the flow and go with my gut.

I am not very good at planning things, actually, but I believe that things happen when they need to and when they have to.

You can't plan your life. It doesn't work.

I think whenever I've thought something might go well, it hasn't, and when I've thought, 'Oh yeah, just chuck it out there,' that's when it kicks off, so now, I don't claim to understand anything.

No, I never planned my life.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be.

I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

Don't plan too hard, because something much better might be out there.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

I've never guided my life. I've just been whipped along by the waves I'm sitting in. I don't make plans at all. Plans are what make God laugh. You can make plans, you can make so many plans, but they never go right, do they?

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

I truly don't have any formula for the choices I make.

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

Just true to form with life sometimes - what you're trying to do doesn't necessarily work out, but what ends up happening can be a lot better. I just relax and say whatever is going to happen - happens.

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.