Eugen Herrigel Quotes

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

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

I feel like everything has happened naturally.

I'm quite a rational person, but I'm drawn to the irrational. I love coincidences, and I like to question that in fiction: 'Is this random, or is there something working underneath?'

See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky?

It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part.

I don't really believe in coincidence.

Life, and the world, sometimes just kinda click, and things just happen. You're chasing it, but it finds you at the same time.

I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder.

I remember someone telling me that when he saw the back of a woman's head, he knew that was the woman he was going marry. I laughed that away as silly talk. But I guess when a relationship has to happen, it happens seamlessly. Your partner just walks into your life.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

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.

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.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

Certain projects find you at the right time.

So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.

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.

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

I don't believe in coincidence.

Often, I dream about work. For instance, the night before the Oscars, I dreamt about the Oscars and I dreamt about who I wanted to interview. Interestingly, one of the people I really wanted to interview was Keanu Reeves, and then we got him. We had never interviewed him before, so that was lucky. Or maybe it was fate - I don't know.