Paul Auster Quotes

I'm just happy to do projects I'm passionate about.

I actually think most people do what they love because it's really important to them.

I don't want to take up a project for the sake of it. I want to work and follow my passion, and not anything else.

You don't need millions of dollars or millions of people if you're doing what you love.

I've spent my life following my passion.

I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.

People ask whether I put the politics first, journalism first or the comedy first; it doesn't really matter. I'm just playing with the cards that I have been dealt because I really love doing what I do.

I'm still doing what I've always wanted to do, and how big it gets or how much money I make for it or how popular I am in the public's eye is really not that important, even though it's hard to let that go.

I don't care about money. I really don't care. I just want to do what I do.

I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.

We do this basically for ourselves. People appreciate it, which is cool, but I think they appreciate that we're doing it for ourselves. We're doing it our way, and how people like it is not up to us. We like it.

It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have a worse time doing anything else. That's kind of as far as I think in terms of philosophy.

I learned to really pursue things I really wanted. If it is just for the money, that's not going to work out. You have to like it.

I don't care about commercial success. I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want.

It's great if you can find what you love to do. Finding it is one thing, but then to be able to practise that and be preoccupied with that is another.

The minute you decide to do what you love to do, you have made a life plan for yourself and a career choice.

Be yourself, find out what you love, find out what you really want to do, and go do it. And don't depend on people who don't have your best interests at heart.

You have to believe that it is what you want to do with your life and you have to be dedicated to it.

Whatever you dream is you find a way to get there, even if you're not paid a lot. Do it for the love of what you do.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

The thing I remember best about successful people I've met all through the years is their obvious delight in what they're doing and it seems to have very little to do with worldly success. They just love what they're doing, and they love it in front of others.

I'd rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.

Work for your own soul's sake.

But you see," said Roark quietly, "I have, let’s say, sixty years to live. Most of that time will be spent working. I’ve chosen the work I want to do. If I find no joy in it, then I’m only condemning myself to sixty years of torture. And I can find the joy only if I do my work in the best way possible to me. But the best is a matter of standards—and I set my own standards. I inherit nothing. I stand at the end of no tradition. I may, perhaps, stand at the beginning of one.

My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.