Steve Jobs Quotes

The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts.

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.

I get lonely - I'm not going to lie about that... I kind of signed up in my mind that I'm giving myself wholeheartedly, full-throttle to my creative life, and I don't want to be distracted.

Only one sport can subsume my life at a time.

When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.

Anything I do, I do fanatically.

I don't even think about the word. But I do have certain things where I just go, "Aaaaahhh," irritatingly boring and insistent because I want it to look that way and I can do it - I don't even know if you'd call it passion or obsession. Obsession, possibly, but I really love what I do.

I get into each thing I do, to the point where nothing else matters. I guess I'm an extremist.

I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my all.

There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it's the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.

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 would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.

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.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

Well, I am obsessive about my work. I throw myself in all the way.

My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.

I'm always writing or playing because that is my life.

I tend to obsess over my passions.

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're probably already disregarding a certain material life you could have.

I was so focused and so driven, there was this fire inside of me that was burning so brightly.

Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take everything from you.

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. You want to be focused on it.