Pablo Picasso Quotes

I have no problem with starting from scratch.

When the terrain differs from the map, you have to go with the terrain.

You've gotta leave enough space for your actors to bring stuff to the table and whatever the weather's doing that day or what the light's like. Things can shift, and you have to be malleable. Every day is a different feeling and a change.

That has been my entire life story. Running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated. The acceptance of certain realities doesn’t preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

The writers could always do an about-face and change everything

I just kind of change, constantly, what my focus is. So whatever is stimulating me or inspiring me at the time is what I focus on.

Principles ... become modified in practice, by facts.

Life doesn't care about your vision. Stuff happens, and you've just got to deal with it. You roll with it; that's the beauty of it all.

What I learned in 'Sons' is that I would come in with a blueprint of a season and how it would go, and I realized that the looser my grip was, the better it became because the story found itself. Things happened as I wanted them to in terms of the bigger mile markers, but the fun part was I never knew how we would get there.

Sometimes we have a match at 11 in the morning, sometimes at 9 P.M. We need to always be adapting; we don't have a match at the same time every week, so it's important to be open with everything.

I like to be an optimist, but I like to be a realist, too.

I sort of go with the flow of what's happening on the set.

The nice thing about the theatre is you can always change it. With a movie, once it's there, you're stuck with it.

There are times when a film turns out differently from how it was narrated. But I don't look at it as a bad thing.

What if you get a job transfer? What if you lose your job? What if you have kids and you need a bigger home? Things change. You always have to be ready to roll with it.

I'm open to making any kind of music, or maybe making no music ever again. That's also an option, always. Who knows what'll happen.

When you have to start over from scratch, you can do it very differently than if you have this big thing that's kinda been building on top of itself for ages and ages.

James Cameron has always been great about changing the rules.

I don't believe in closed scripts; I think that they should be open.

I like to leave things open, and even when I write out the story ahead of time, it always changes. I don't think I would finish anything if I was sticking to a plan that was very rigid.

I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.

Anything can happen, and you have to be able to understand the reality of the world that we live in.

Imagine a master painting that's never finished...when you can only build on previous work, you become limited by what you can paint...If you are in the midst of painting a forest full of tall tress and hanging vines, it is rather difficult to wake up the next day and suddenly turn that paining into the beach and ocean...We have to treat each day like a black canvas on which we can paint. Yesterday might have been paining flowers, but today you can paint cars or horses. A new day represents a chance for renewal.

The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Make your plans to fit the circumstances.