Max Minghella Quotes

Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.

You can't always expect to work with a director who guarantees success.

You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.

Results are uncertain even among the more experienced photographers.

Music is funny. I shouldn't even ever talk about music, because you can have all the ideas in your head, and it never goes exactly the way that you think it's gonna go.

Some people plan their life out, and it occurs. Others have things they're thinking about, and things don't go that way.

Even with most finite planning, you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you.

When you make a movie, you don't know how it'll turn out. You can only guess.

Things don't always work out as you want them to.

Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

My feeling about all films and all television is that it's an adventure. That's the way I have to look at it. Because you don't know what the climate of the circumstance is going to be. It could be very good. It could be very mediocre. It could be very bad. You don't know. But I've been doing it long enough now to know that it's an adventure. That's what it's all about.

My main point today is that usually one gets what one expects, but very rarely in the way one expected it.

Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.

One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.

As for performing live, I just never imagined how it would work out; for good reason, because it doesn't just work out - not the way you think it will. It's a chance that you take.

When you choose a show you really don't know where it's going to go. Sometimes things let you down and sometimes things just surprise you and fulfill you way more than you thought.

Things never happen exactly how you think they will.

You never know what to expect. You don't just walk on and expect an amazing reaction.

You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.

Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.

I like the way the morning can be stormy and the afternoon clear and sparkly as a jewel in the water. Put your hand in the water to reach for a sea urchin or a sea shell, and the thing desired never quite lies where you had lined it up to be. The same is true of love. In prospect or contemplation, love is where it seems to be. Reach in to lift it out and your hand misses

Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.