A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
Do it now. Not next week. Not tomorrow. Not later this afternoon. Now.
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
Theatre is done largely for the love of the craft. Television makes you famous. And films immortalize you. That's the relationship between the three.
A spiritual life means: It is now or never.
life is the moment we're living right now.
Definitely, something is happening out there in Internet world at any given moment, but the likelihood that it's something that can't wait until that evening for you to find out about it is very small.
I'm energized by this idea that's live television. In the same way as an athlete when they get on the field or on the court, you have to perform in that moment or it's past you and you've missed.
I like to be in the now, now. Sometimes musicians have to wait for me to be genuine with it. As an actor, I don't have that luxury. You have to make it legit when they say 'action.'
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, nor the shadow of the future.
I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.
Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?
No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
In film you have the opportunity of retakes or of giving your best profile. In theatre, it's right here, right now.
What we do in theatre is unlike film or any other medium. We can never really truly see the work that we made because we're in in.
I'm very much a man of the moment. I can think about an idea for a year, two years, even four years all right, but what ever is going on with me the moment I write is gonna work it's way into the piece.
Now's the day and now's the hour.
I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.
Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will happen. A novelist needs to feel what that is like.
There’s only two times in life, there’s now and there’s too late.
If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.
One of the few things I know about writing is this: Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book, give it, give it all, give it now.
I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it.
The only time you'll ever have is now.
