Joseph Kosinski Quotes

When you talk to people in retrospect, they always say the casting was a no-brainer, but nothing really is. You have to have so many things line up. I'm very grateful that it worked out.

I don't really push myself upon people. I don't have that. When it meets and things fall in line, it's meant to happen. It's happened that way. I just try to do my best and do my work, and then it falls in line.

In that moment, the machinery of the world lined up. Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo's future seemed to fall perfectly into place.

And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling into place.

In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving. Nature does not often say 'See!' to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply 'Here!' to a body's cry of 'Where?' till the hide-and-seek has become an irksome outworn game.

It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.

I've come to learn that you can be very, very talented, but if you're not at the right place at the right time... It's a lot of luck.

I still think that luck is what a lot of the good things come from. It's simply the luck of where you are, when.

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator in all of them.

I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.

Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

Certain projects find you at the right time.

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

Things tend to come when they are meant to come. I know that sounds kind of like spiritual and cheesy, but I think things come when they're meant to come.

As usual, my timing is bizarrely good.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.

I had thought up the title, 'The Good Luck of Right Now,' several years ago. I had no idea what it meant or what the book would be about but I thought, 'Someday I'm going to write a book with that title.'

Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them.

So much in politics is luck and timing.

So much of life is not about whether you're good or bad, or right or wrong, or can afford or not afford - it's just about timing.

What's happened in my career is probably fate and good luck.

I'm not a big believer in fate, but, boy, I've had a lot of lucky breaks.

Timing in my life has been fortuitous.