David Slade Quotes

Sometimes the things you decide not to do are actually the biggest things to do in your career.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.

I will not look back and say, 'I should have played in England.'

Don't overplan your life. Joining Google when I was four months pregnant was a bit of a leap, but sometimes you have to do the right thing for you right now.

The one thing Nikki and I always live by is 'No regrets.'

You can try to make the right decision all the time, but it's better to just make a decision. I have done wrong so many times, but nine times out of 10, I have learned from my failure. Don't wait for something; just go for it.

Life is about making choices, seeing those choices through, and living through consequences.

I've said no to shows that have been on the air for six years because they weren't what I wanted to do.

I never regret making a decision.

Sometimes success isn't about making the right decision, it's more about making some decision.

I can't count the number of people I've talked to over the course of my career who have said to me that the thing that they most regret is the one time they did something just for the money.

I have been fortunate to get some really good scripts over the years and I haven't turned down anything that I regretted so far. And my manager who I've been with for over 25 years is very good at knowing what I should and shouldn't do a lot of times.

Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.

I think the worst decision is usually no decision. If you make the wrong decision you can usually course-correct, but if you don't make it, you've already made it, and it's usually the bad one.

You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Ask yourself: What forms the decisions you make? What is it that gnaws at you? What are your crucible moments?

Making a wrong choice early may limit making the right choice later.

When in doubt, take the next step.

Nothing is ever solved, or created, by standing still. Movement is the process of the Universe. So move. Do something. Anything. But do not stand still. Do not fence sit. Put your foot down on one side or the other, swing the opposite leg over and start walking. You'll know before you take ten steps if you're going in the right direction.

You'd better make sure that you know you can make a difference, and if it's a difference you want to make, is there another way to do the same thing, and what's the down side? What's the repercussions if I do this? To my career, to my family, whatever else.

Generally I wouldn't accept work on projects where I didn't agree with the sensibilities behind the main character.

Thank God I didn't put my career over family. That would have been the biggest mistake of my life. I'm really happy it went the way it did.

Whatever you've done, you get it back, so you can either go on, or you can blow it.

Everything depends very much on who you are, what your values are, what your commitments are, what circumstances you live in and what options you're willing to undertake, and that determines what you ought to be doing.