Tessa Thompson Quotes

For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.

I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.

I've been lucky. The projects I've gotten to work on are projects I'd want to watch myself. That's what I try to shoot for.

I just want to work with good filmmakers and do good projects that mean something to me and play interesting characters. That's really it.

I always try and hold to that saying, 'I want to work on things I'd want to see.' The vast majority, that's been true.

There are certain projects that you love to be involved in, no matter what the capacity, and there are certain projects that I probably wouldn't even consider getting behind.

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

I'm really not feeling one way or the other with comedy or drama, I'm just sort of doing projects that I've been finding really fun to be a part of.

I do pick my projects very meticulously. I want my projects to be meaningful.

My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.

I always wanted my work to speak for itself, and have opportunities to do interesting work and not just puff pieces.

I've been lucky to be able to work with great people and on interesting material.

If the script grabs me and appeals to me, I'm really very keen to work on it.

The goal is to work as much as possible in projects I respect and that will help me grow.

I like working with new artists.

I think, like every actor, you've just to pick what you're interested in.

Everyone wants to do only those films which they find interesting. That is the way the industry works.

That's the kind of work I like to do: challenging work that has a message.

I think media will tell me how many films I have done in 2018, same as they did in 2017. So, let's see how it goes, but I don't really keep a count. I love doing interesting work.

I think I have pretty good taste in the projects I choose to take on. It's a blessing and a curse - I certainly could have worked a lot more if I wasn't as selective, but I just can't bring myself to spend two years of my life slaving away on some project I'm not really enthused about.

For me to start working, projects have to catch my attention whether they are here (in the USA) or in Mexico. All I want is to be involved in projects that are interesting to me, projects that are a challenge wherever they may happen, in Spain, in China, or in Hollywood.

The only way I can work is if I care and am passionate about a project, so the challenge is to find projects that I feel that way about.

If I like it, if I think the character is going to be fun, if I think the story is good and if it appeals to me, then I want to do it.

I'm so beyond genre, drama, comedies, I just want to do really good, interesting projects.

It is impossible for me to get involved in films that I don't like, so I just wait for a project that really tickles my fancy.