Robin Wright Quotes

At times I come across works of mine which are soundly done and really in my style, and at such moments I find great solace.

I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.

When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.

My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.

I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'

I would do 'John Carter' again tomorrow. I'm very proud of 'John Carter.' Box office doesn't validate me as a person, or as an actor.

If my film does not do well, it really hurts me. But by God's grace, even if some of my films may not have done well, people have still liked my work in it.

I look back at my filmography, and I'm pretty jazzed with the stuff I've been part of. They're all movies I'd like to see.

All the work that I do, whether or not it ends up being commercially successful or not, feels like the most important thing to me while I'm doing it. I try to take something away from every project, and so they all feel like milestones for one reason or another.

I'll still try to nail acting jobs, but with 'Eastbound,' creating it is what gives me the ultimate pleasure at the end of the day.

When 'Attachments' came out and people liked it, I'd have a warm feeling of having made a connection.

Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point of view and a new respect for my work as an actress.

I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.

I never did anything as an actor that I was extremely proud of.

If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.

As long as it comes across, the characters are well-served, the stories are good, and people like it, that's it for me. I'm a happy guy.

I've written the best work I know how. And I'm appreciative of the people who read it and care about the work - and that's pretty much the end of that.

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.

It's hard for me to judge my own films as an artist sometimes. But as an artist, I did feel a fulfillment working on them, you know?

I made some very forgettable films, but I liked them all when I was doing them.

My thing about creating things is that it has to do two purposes: It has to serve me creatively but also has to serve the people.

When I entered the industry, I wanted to work with good directors like Mani Ratnam and Gautam Menon; that's why I did Tamil films. I realised later that I was not adding anything to the Tamil scripts and that it was a waste of time for me.

I'm not a fan of my own work. People ask why I do it, but it's because I actually love what I'm doing in the moment. I live for it. It's a release.

Failure at the box office of some of my earlier films led to a lack of opportunity to play main lead in good films.

My whole career this is the biggest failure financially, but at the same time, it's one of my favorite things I've ever done.