Robert Wise Quotes

No one ever sets out to make a bad movie. There's almost always incredible amount of passion and work put behind any given project. You just have to give it everything you got, and sometimes it works out, and a lot of the times it doesn't.

Whatever you go into, you have to go in there to be the best. There's no formulas. It's all about passion and honesty and hard work. It might look glamorous, but it takes a lot of hard work. The blessing with the arts is that you can do it forever.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.

I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your dream.

I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.

To make movies you just have to want it enough. You have to have the passion for telling stories. You have to get by the love-of-movies aspect. You can't just be a movie fan.

Inspiration and work ethic - they ride right next to each other.

I think that self-discipline has to be accompanied by passion.

All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.

I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.

My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.

I'm an ensemble guy, I guess - that comes from the theater. If I ever won some kind of award someday, I imagine I'd try to be very gracious, but in the end, I just want to keep working. I don't see why that, if you just put your mind to it and keep sowing the right seeds, you can't keep doing the things you want to do.

The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream.

But in order to be the thing you want to be, you have to work like a dog at the thing you love.

A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.

You must find something that you deeply love and are passionate about and are willing to sacrifice a lot to achieve.

If you want to act, you have to devote yourself to it. Send out letters and photos every day, work all the hours under the sun, whatever it takes. If you're not determined, you won't get anywhere.

When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.

The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.

If you're passionate about something and stick with it, even if your friends aren't doing it, it'll pay off. It can be really rewarding to stick to your guns.

You know, many of you kids can't relate to what it takes to get to the top rung, the top of the heap, to have success. We're looking for things that come in a minute. It just doesn't happen.

Everything good takes a great amount of effort. Like, things went wrong with 'Prozac Nation' so much, and it went through so many rejections and incarnations, but I felt so much that it needed to exist. But if I hadn't been so persistent and insistent, it wouldn't have happened.

When some people have a difficult job to do, they give up everything else until that job is finished. Others just give up.

You don't have to raise millions of dollars to be successful, you just have to work on something you are passionate about.

There's only really one way to be at the top, and that's practicing - practicing well and practicing hard. And enjoying what you do, because if you don't enjoy it then, it's always tough to wake up and go practice and suffer on the court.