Annette Bening Quotes

When you make movies the way I do, you invest everything you have. And you do it like a crazy maniac.

Even when I’m not working, I’m still working on something because I just want to create something.

I get ideas about things I want to make and then I throw myself into it with everything I have.

I am a person of high energy. That, and I sit down and I write when I get an idea - I put other things aside.

Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in talent. I believe in passion.

I don't even think about the word. But I do have certain things where I just go, "Aaaaahhh," irritatingly boring and insistent because I want it to look that way and I can do it - I don't even know if you'd call it passion or obsession. Obsession, possibly, but I really love what I do.

A talent is a combination of something you love a great deal and something you can lose yourself in - something that you can start at 9 o'clock, look up from your work and it's 10 o'clock at night.

I obsess over things... especially my book projects. It can be very time consuming.

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.

Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

Creation is a drug I can't do without.

I become quite obsessive when I get into something.

Music, from the time I was probably about five years old, was my obsession. I was going to say 'passion,' but I really was obsessed; I really didn't want to do anything else.

When I work on stories, I tend to be pretty obsessive.

I am obsessed with people that are obsessed with what they do.

Only by being obsessed with little things do amazing things emerge.

My life revolves around music.

All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession.

A genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible.

The defining character of Steve Jobs isn't his genius, it isn't his talent, it isn't his success. It's his love. That's why crowds came to see him. You could feel that. It sounds ridiculous to talk about love when you are making a gadget. But Steve loved his work, he loved the products he produced, and it was palpable. He communicated that love through bits of steel and plastic.

Once I find something I'm passionate about, I get this crazy drive.

Write about it by day and dream about it by night.