Jan Mark Quotes

What's so great about inspiration is sometimes it finds you when you're not looking.

There's no way of telling why you want to do things beforehand. Something just grabs you. It might not grab you six months later, and it might not have grabbed you six months before, but at that particular moment it grabs you, so you jump on it.

Engaging in new creative projects keeps me energized. I feel deeply grateful for all of the opportunities that life has given me.

It often feels like a tremendous amount of work is required to get an idea moving forward, like pushing a train uphill. But at a certain point, the thing takes on its own momentum, and takes unexpected turns. So it's that feeling of holding on, rather than pushing it, that is the most exciting thing. It's that need to occasionally bounce off the walls, letting anything happen for any reason, and having nothing to guide you that is the joy.

I want another idea, another project, but you can't make them up. They show up.

I never dreamed of dancing on television or anything like that. It's more of things that come along that excite me and inspire me.

I don't expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.

I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it.

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

It is so gratifying to hear from people who look up to you and see you in these places that they never thought they could ever dream to be. It's emotional. You really feel like you're opening up people's minds, who otherwise thought that they couldn't dream big. That's such a huge opportunity. It's such a gift.

Some people just come in, do it and they know it's right. It turns out better than you imagined it was going to sound. When that happens, you take it as a gift.

I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do.

Virtually always I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot's done.

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

You don't want to destroy the energy that comes out of a campaign.

Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.

Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.

If an idea isn't exciting, you shouldn't do it.

You can find inspiration when you're not even looking for it.

There's no master plan; I'm just going with what I'm inspired to do and what I get asked to do, and luckily the things I've been the most passionate about, I've gotten to do. And a lot of times I've gone up for movies that I didn't really care that much about, and I never got that.

You have to squeeze every creative moment and be grateful.

All that time, you go, 'God, am I slipping away here?' And then something great happens, you get a call, and work begets more work.

Inspiration comes and goes when it pleases. It's independent of our desires, doesn't respond well to force, and refuses to be controlled.

If you love something, if you're passionate about it, that's where you're going to have the greatest impact on the people around you: by living in those passions and sharing that passion with other people and sharing your gifts and what God created you to be.

My friends and I have always been trying to make movies, at every moment. We've tried so many different angles and approaches. But when it happens, it happens, and you just run with it.