Michael Cacoyannis Quotes

Anything Anytime Anyplace For No Reason At All (or AAAFNRAA)

Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

I'm very big into just feeling good and doing what I want; I'm not very calculated or thoughtful about my moves.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.

If I start planning then that's dangerous because then I have a target that I'm blinkered towards and I won't listen to the warning signs quite so much. I'd rather be in shape and then look around and say there's a race next week and jump into that than have it planned.

There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.

I really don't work to a plan, but I just do what interests me and what I like to do.

You never know what I'm gonna do.

Lean just follows his heart wherever it wants to go.

We have now left Reason and Sanity Junction. Next stop, Looneyville.

Nothing is important, so people, realising that, should get on with their lives, go mad, take their clothes off, jump in the canal, jump into one of those supermarket trolleys, race around the supermarket and steal Mars bars and kiss kittens.

There is no shame in impulse.

What is life but a series of inspired follies.

There's always a reason for everything.

I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense.

What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.

What is the why behind everything you do?

All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.

A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge.

She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren.

Never forget why you're really doing what you're doing.

Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.

Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.