Natalya Neidhart Quotes

That's the great thing about filmmaking: Things happen you don't know are going to happen at the end.

I love the element of surprise, throwing people off of what they think they know about what I can do and who I am. I just want to keep doing that.

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

Chance is the only source of true novelty.

All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'

If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.

It's so funny when you're actually directing because things start popping that you don't expect to pop, and something that you think is going to pop, maybe doesn't quite have the impetus that you thought it might.

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

I'm not a career filmmaker. I just like to do things that I still kind of believe in and because of that you just never know what's going to happen next. It doesn't matter if it's been a good year or a bad year: next year, there's no telling what it will be like.

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

You never know how things are going to turn out in a movie. You can imagine a scene one way, and it can turn out to be completely the polar opposite of what you expected. You just have to roll with the punches.

I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow, and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.

The problem in cinema is that you can never predict what will happen.

Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will happen. A novelist needs to feel what that is like.

The great fun of doing new plays is that people have no idea what's going to happen next. That goes quite soon, as people start talking about it, and the only way you can keep hold of that is genuinely to keep changing it.

I never want anything to be too predictable.

I often do things that surprise me, not to mention others.

When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.

An actor can never plan. You never know what can work in your favour or not and then maybe the whole dynamics can change.

Life is all about the unexpected.

We can never fully plan our future, so don't try.

You can't plan your life. It doesn't work.

I often don't know what I'll be working on next year or a year from now. There is often a chance meeting, or something that I worked on 10 years ago suddenly becomes important again.