Sean Baker Quotes

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.

I don't plan my roles or my films.

There is spontaneity to my work.

I don't really have a routine. I make it up on the fly, or whatever feels right, I'll do.

My style is very spontaneous.

As I've moved through life, I've found that I like things to be as casual and as spontaneous as possible when writing.

I'm not somebody who plans. There were times I planned a lot in my life, and it never turns out how you plan it. So I think it's important not to. I'm a very spontaneous person.

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

I learned that the best way to work is to allow the scene to live on its own before making major adjustments, whether in rehearsal or on film.

I think there's always this idea in your head, but you have to allow the film to take its own course.

I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing.

I'm not a very 'this is planned out' person when I get to set. 'This is how I'm going to do it' - I'm never like that.

As an idea occurs to me, I'll either follow it or not, but I'm more instinctive than master-planner about stuff.

I don't make a career plan. I take things the way they come.

I don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally. I don't like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect.

Then we tried to come up with ideas for the sketches, and then, when we actually shot the movie, we really just sat down - never previewed the movie - we just really winged it.

I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.

I just like to take it as it comes, go where the wind blows me. I'm not going to plan.

The hardest thing is that I never do anything the same way twice, and when I'm on the air, I'm very unscripted, and I'm very comfortable in that role. So me being scripted is not a comfortable place for me.

I'd like to be more spontaneous.

I leave a lot open so I can fill it in later. If I don't have any ideas right away, I can fill it in later.

I'm very spontaneous. I go with my gut.

I'm a very spontaneous person, for the bad and the good.

I don't really live by plans.