Cynthia Ozick Quotes

Everything in 'Satya' was by chance. It was a film which just started evolving by itself. I just went mostly by instinct and kept on improvising on location, and the film just got made itself.

Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.

Nothing was planned in my career.

Acting was never planned.

I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. Spilling a little turpentine can also be helpful.

Sometimes things just happen in the moment.

I never dreamt that I would do all the things that I have done. But things just happened to me all the time.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

For me, everything has always been an accident.

Actually, the books were never a planned career path.

Things happen in weird, serendipitous ways.

Some things happen without you putting an effort, while some others things do not happen despite we wanting it to happen.

I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream.

When you kind of don't care, for some reason, that's when things happen.

I didn't intend to make one solo record, much less two. It's really a matter of seeing how it goes.

When magic happens, it just happens, brother.

I have never planned anything. 'Kung Fu Yoga' was also never planned or anything.

I'm very proud of the people with whom I've worked. It's an amazing collection that just by happenstance happened.

If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.

I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened.

Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.

In my life, all of the best things that have happened to me have almost invariably been accidents or fate.

One of the main reasons that I love doing what I do is because it's unpredictable and I don't know what's coming next. When you're creating work, it's up to you whether it's an exciting experience or not.

Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.

Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.