Vera Farmiga Quotes

I like talking about comic book process, and one of the things is that I have plans going ahead for years, and the plans constantly get thrown away and shifted. There's a difference between planning and what actually happens in life, and comics have a life of their own.

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.

You've gotta leave enough space for your actors to bring stuff to the table and whatever the weather's doing that day or what the light's like. Things can shift, and you have to be malleable. Every day is a different feeling and a change.

The nice thing about the theatre is you can always change it. With a movie, once it's there, you're stuck with it.

Something that comics afford me is being able to change my mind at the last minute.

You have to start somewhere. You can always erase reality later on.

I never talk about books in progress. I could decide to change it to a series of seafood recipes, after all.

Shooting in Hong Kong, you can do whatever you want, even change the script every day. In Hollywood, you have to have a lot of meetings.

With 'The Crazies,' we had a lot of room to play and manipulate and change things. When you get something bigger, you have less control in that sense unless you're one of the three stars.

You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

Always have an answer - even if you change your mind five minutes later.

Scenes change all the time. Scenes will change while you're shooting them, and you just have to roll with it 'cause that's what makes it funny. It's not being stuck in your character and how you're gonna do something, but to react to other people and to really have a real-life conversation.

When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.

When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me.

I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.

I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't.

I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.

I just kind of change, constantly, what my focus is. So whatever is stimulating me or inspiring me at the time is what I focus on.

When the facts change, one ought to change one’s opinion.

Let nothing prevent you from changing your previous decision if after consideration you feel that the previous decision was incorrect.

There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

What I learned in 'Sons' is that I would come in with a blueprint of a season and how it would go, and I realized that the looser my grip was, the better it became because the story found itself. Things happened as I wanted them to in terms of the bigger mile markers, but the fun part was I never knew how we would get there.

I think a lot of what I loved being a studio executive was the variety and freedom. But now, as a producer, you're much more able to enjoy those two things. What I loved about it doesn't necessarily exist anymore.

Sometimes we have a match at 11 in the morning, sometimes at 9 P.M. We need to always be adapting; we don't have a match at the same time every week, so it's important to be open with everything.

I don't trust anyone who doesn't change their mind.