Jacques Derrida Quotes

Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.

This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit.

It's the one you don't expect that knocks you out.

Everything can happen in tennis.

In football, you never know what can happen.

I never in a million years would have thought I would end up with Golden State.

That's the great thing about filmmaking: Things happen you don't know are going to happen at the end.

One never knows how a bout is going to pan out and even in last 2-3 seconds things can change.

The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.

If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.

You know, they always say that the photographer is a hunter of images. That is a flattering image, the idea of a hunter, it's virile, acquired power. Actually though, it isn't that. We are really fishermen with hooks and lines.

I had no clue they would fall into my armpits eventually.

We'll have a part and it's clearing up, so you think something is going to happen and it totally stops and does something completely different and then the part you thought was going to happen comes out of completely nowhere.

Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves.

When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that they do not know where in the world they will find pictures. Nobody does. Each photograph that works is a revelation to its supposed creator.

People seem to think that my movies are so carefully coordinated and arranged - and in a lot of ways, they are - but every single time I make a movie, I feel that every director makes these choices. You make choices about your script, you make choices about your actors, and how you're going to stage it, and how you're going to shoot it, and what the costumes are going to be like, and in every single detail, you make that decision. And for me, what ends up happening is, I wind up surprised at the combination of all these ingredients. It never is anything like what I expected.

I think half the point of painting a picture is that you don't know what will happen... that if painters did know what was going to happen they wouldn't bother to do it.

I used to always throw in random questions. I'd have to ask about artist's single and their writing process, which I know is every artist's most-hated question, like, "Well what was ,your process?" And it's. like, "Well, I wrote this album." And then at the end I would throw in, like, "So, Seinfeld or Simpsons?" and they'd be so thrown, because everything else could be autopilot. All my greatest moments were from the most sporadic questions.

You can never tell what the public will think! But when something goes well and is well-received, it's a great surprise!

Most people if I like their music, I can get good pictures.

The beauty of what I happened by extraordinary chance to put together is that nobody would have believed that this is possible, and certainly I didn't expect that it was possible. I just moved from step to step to step.

Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.