Morten Tyldum Quotes

Only be an actor if you can't be happy doing anything else. I don't think you should be an actor if you want to be actor. I think you should be an actor if you have to be an actor.

I feel really lucky that I'm able to pursue the work that I love. I want my children to see that. I want them to have that for themselves, something that they love, that they do, that they pursue in their lives as a way of growing and learning.

The truest drive comes from doing what you love.

I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.

From an early age, I knew I would be unhappy if I wasn't doing something creative.

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

I want to struggle and make films. It's not a financial thing, it's more of a who-I-am thing.

I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to.

It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have a worse time doing anything else. That's kind of as far as I think in terms of philosophy.

That never stops. That's what drives you: the joy and excitement of doing what you love.

I just want to work on things that move me.

I've been saying to people for a long time, 'If you're not doing something you're tremendously excited about, and you're not feeling passionate about it, you're compromising yourself every day.'

Every time I'd do a play, my grades would get better because I was doing something that fed my soul. It took me a couple of years to recognize that the hobby was actually the calling.

Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't will.

Work has never really been work for me. It's been a natural extension of my life.

I remember feeling a little guilty every time I opened a Chipotle. I felt guilty because I wasn't following my true passion. But that eventually went away. And I realized that this is my calling.

I've said that if you're not doing something that you're passionate about, you're compromising yourself every single day.

A job is something you do for money. Your life's work is done for a bigger purpose... And when you manage to find that work - that's when it starts feeling like play.

Do the work you believe in - if there's an authentic reason for doing it.

I wasn't predestined to be a filmmaker; this wasn't an obvious choice to me.

I have always done work to which my heart says yes.

If you're on Earth as a single-purpose engine, and there's only one thing you want to do for the rest of your life, have at it.

To be able to inspire somebody just by doing something that you love, just by creating your art, is something that's very near and dear to my heart.

There's nothing more nourishing to the spirit than doing what you feel called to do.

When you receive a script and it leaps out at you and it's breathing with its own heartbeat - I suppose when you read something like that it's not a choice of whether you do it or don't. It feels like it chooses you, so you just do it.