Ray McKinnon Quotes

I was so locked in. At one point I remember thinking, I'm not going to be a father, boyfriend, friend, whatever. I'm here to play.

For many years, tennis was the most important thing in my life. That was great. Nothing wrong with that.

I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.

The racing team is the most important thing in the world to me. It's where all my eggs are fully in that basket. I go dance and do TV to try to make that world more important.

I think no matter what you are going to pursue, if you pursue it like it's the most important thing, then everything else will be lost. And at the end of the day, when it's time to evaluate the path that you chose for your life, there has to be something more.

Football is important, but it's not the most important thing anymore.

It gives me a sense of tunnel vision.

I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.

If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.

It's all discipline and schedule for me. I mean, it's very easy to get distracted by the real world and things that intrude constantly, and it takes dedication to live totally in your head and be tuned out.

Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration.

Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus.

I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

Whatever it is that I am working on is what I become obsessed with.

When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

In my studio, it is unkempt and unattractive. Once I'm in my work, I don't notice where I am.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

I'm woefully one-track-minded.

In the surfing days, that was all there was for me. Sailing, starting around '68, it was kind of the same deal. I always got really into whatever it was I was doing.

Writing is the most important thing in my life - above marriage.

It's that one thing that you're passionate about, that you end up developing tunnel vision for and everything else tends to fall by the wayside. Passion is appealing and universal.

I just kind of do my thing with sort of tunnel vision for the story and my role and how it fits together.