Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes

Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn't open one way, try another - perhaps even give it up for another bottle?

I just find things that work and embellish them.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

When you don't know what to do, try something; if that doesn't work, try something else.

I engage and after that I see what to do.

My directing is really weird. Everything is based on whether it's working or not. I don't try to fix something if it's not working, I'll just change it.

It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that's really good.

You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.

We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

I learned over time that you do not go for the perfect solution….You do what is doable and then you want to try and do a little bit more.

The best plan is to have no plan.

One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology.

We are pragmatists. We don't stick to any ideology. Does it work? Let's try it, and if it does work, fine, let's continue it. If it doesn't work, toss it out, try another one. We are not enamored with any ideology.

In chess, you gotta come up with a strategy. I made a lot of plans in my life. 'I'ma do this, I'ma do that, this is gonna happen, that's gonna happen.' And a lot of stuff don't go as planned. You really gotta act on events as they unfold. That's how I compare chess to life.

I don't think much. I'm just going to keep doing what I've been doing. Adjust on the fly if I have to.

The core hacker premise that 'code wins arguments' is just another way of saying that anything is worth trying, regardless of whether it is a conservative or liberal idea, and that whatever works is worth keeping.

I never really sat down and decided, 'And now this is what I'm going to do.' I just do it.

Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way out.

Let's just start and see what happens.