David Heyman Quotes

I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think something's gonna be a huge success, and it isn't. And sometimes you pay no attention to something whatsoever, and God just makes it into everything.

Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that's rarely the case.

Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.

I'm always taken aback by things that are successful that I think are just crap, and then I'm completely surprised when things I do end up being successful because you walk into things and you never know... It's just really remarkable.

Success isn't supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There's no guarantee you're going to succeed. There's nothing set in stone.

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

Some years you have good years, some years you don't.

Even if you play well, you can lose, and vice versa.

Most people have a kind of survivor bias about luck. When something wonderful happens - when preparation meets opportunity, with excellent results - we think: 'How lucky!' But we don't usually acknowledge all the times when things just... fizzle out. All the times when preparation comes to nothing.

Everything can happen in football.

Your life can change in a moment, depending if the ball goes in.

From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.

Success. Money. Fame. Whatever you're going after. You have one kick at the can, I always say. It's very rare that you have many kicks at the can. You're there at the right place at the right time, you have your shot, and it either works or it doesn't. And I've had many shots.

Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

Who has good luck is good, Who has bad luck is bad.

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

The only failure is not trying.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure.

You can always make a good film but for it to be successful, you need God's blessing.

The man who said 'I'd rather be lucky than good' saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose.

It is never possible to guarantee success, it is only possible to deserve it.

Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.

Film industry is a pretty brutal business. If you fall too far behind, all of the perfectionism in the world won't save you.