It's a deliberate choice. I am a fervent supporter of the idea that you don't have to have wall-to-wall music in good films.
to not act is a choice too
I do the right thing on purpose. I don't do it by accident.
People always say, "I don't mean to do this . . . ," and then they do it! If you don't mean to touch on something, then don't touch on it. That's how I feel.
I don't make decisions with my heart, I use my brain to think things through.
I am capable of bad taste - deliberately.
Before I make an action, think about the consequences. ... Any decision I make is a heavy decision.
I made a deliberate choice to write something people would enjoy, not knock people out with 'Boy, he can really put a clause together!'
I don't make hasty, impulsive decisions.
Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas the former is a cold and deliberate choice of the heart.
It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.
I've've seen some people like this that no matter what happens they've got something cheerful to feel about it. It's not always easy, but if we do it as a deliberate sward of battle rather then thinking 'Well, I'm not really feeling that way and therefore I shouldn't say that I am'. No! Make yourself that way!
With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are interesting to all alike.
If I'm going to do anything extreme, I want it to have consequences.
Anytime I meet people who got to make the deliberate choice, whose parents chose Canada, I'm jealous. Because I think being able to choose it, rather than being Canadian by default, is an amazing statement of attachment to Canada.
My resolve to die was not the whim of an hour. It was the ripe, sound fruit that had slowly grown to full size, lightly rocked by the winds of fate whose next breath would bring it to the ground.
When I lose my temper it's because I decide to. If I do something it's because I want to do it.
If you don't actively and decidedly choose to be the best, you automatically default to the lower 80% in your field.
There's a conscious decision to everything I do.
I'm not competing in Iowa for a reason.
I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.
My understanding is that you get to choose which of your thoughts to go with.
Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.
The conscious decision, early on, was that I was going to live in New York. That was it.
I have never opened with the QP - on principle.
