Bryn Terfel Quotes

I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to be - something where I don't feel compromised.

I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.

In sport you always think the strongest guy should be going for it and getting the best results. The thing is, cycling also has a very important team aspect, which I don't think that a lot of people fully grasp.

I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do.

The contracts are structured different than athletes in America, but for me, it was good to move on and go back to playing in the premiere league, which is the best league. It was disappointing, as far as the team goes, but for me, there wasn't much I could do.

It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work.

He was an amazing - John McTiernan really was an incredible director, probably the best I've worked with because he constantly busted me when he wasn't getting what he wanted.

The most important thing for Quentin and the most important thing for me is to make the best film possible.

When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them to a place that isn't pleasant. I always think: 'Is it worth doing for the sake of the movie?' But I have to remember the bigger picture.

It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band.

I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.

Casting, to me, is always the same. It's a very important part of a director's job. I pick people that I sense I'd like to be in a room with and will enjoy the rehearsal process with because that's the best part.

The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.

You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.

I'd like to have mass appeal, but not at the expense of what I am and what I do best.

I've cut myself out... I've cut scenes out that I was in and that's when you realize that you've got to make the best movie you can.

Working with someone is the best way to get to know someone, especially if it's a creative endeavor.

There were times in my career I went a little further than I wanted because of expectations. Doing certain things onstage when children were in the audience, wearing certain clothes, singing certain lyrics.

Universal was absolutely marvelous about sitting down with me and listening to my input. It wasn't something where they chose a bunch of songs that were best sellers. They did a marvelous job on the packaging. It's a beautiful tribute.

Once you get an offer from Steven Soderbergh, you just do anything you can to make it fit.

Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.

Of course I want to be a best seller because I'm in the business and I want to be read, but there is no money in the world that can compensate for writing badly.

It's my responsibility to make the movie work with the schedule and money we have. It's my job to get the best movie we can do in the time we have.

I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.

Generally, the best recording is the original cast, because that's the way the piece grew: integrally, with them.