Jock Sturges Quotes

There are those photographers who have made a whole career doing commercial work but have never had a museum show, and then there are others who've only had museum shows but couldn't survive for five seconds in the real world of photography. But I've done absolutely everything.

My dad was actually against me being a photographer. He thought it was a dead-end job and that you end up doing baby pictures and weddings.

There's nothing wrong with being a fashion photographer, but it's a bit limited.

Your parents only want what's best for you. They know a career in the arts usually means living paycheck to paycheck; they just want you to know that you have other options!

I wasn't aware it could make me rich or famous. I just wanted to take pictures.

I couldn't make a living as a comic in Ireland and I was watching my friends from college getting good jobs, buying houses, and I had to really take stock and say: am I going to go for this comedy thing, or what?

The theatre, which is my most comfortable place, unfortunately it's very hard to make a living in.

I was always looking for a career that could combine my creative interests with my technical side, and it ends up directing films is the perfect combination.

I was making $150 a week in workshop. It was a rough year. I had trouble paying the rent. But I had evenings free to spend with my wife, Olive, and our baby daughter. In terms of family-building, it was one of the most blessed years of my life.

I'm thankful that I was able to have a long, healthy career for the most part.

My dad was an actor, and he always said that work was work; you can't turn your nose up at it. We didn't have much money when I was growing up, and he had this real work ethic, which I inherited.

It's hard to live just by selling paintings.

Economic security can feel like an impossible goal when you're living paycheck to paycheck, deciding between paying the light bill or the water bill, knowing the decision to pay either one may mean you can't put food on the table.

I started as a documentary maker, and they're my first love.

I was pushing for a career in poetry and of course the received wisdom was that you would never make a living at it.

I've discovered that being behind the camera is more fascinating. If I had to choose a profession today, it would have been something behind the camera.

There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.

I was the boy next door who always knew what it meant to have no money. That changed when I turned professional. I was crazy.

When I was 19 or 20 years old, I wasn't making a living wrestling. I needed a full-time income.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children - and the next day, it's completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that's when I had to man up.

My dad told me, 'Whatever you do, don't dance. Do something else. Do anything else.' He knew how much hard work you have to put in, how hard it is to make a living, and he didn't want me to do it.

I was busy enough when I was just a musician. I wasn't making all that much money but I was busy.

The challenge is to balance the technical elements and what is required of us with being artists and telling a story.

I think you can make a gorgeous movie on any piece of equipment. Look at 'Tangerine,' which is a beautiful movie shot on an iPhone. You see so many movies that are impeccably shot but are vapid, and there's no audience for that except for other cinematographers who just like to watch two-hour-long music videos.

We were in the position after our sextuplets were born that we could not pay our bills. We did the show to provide a better life for them.