Quotes About Flexibility

In television, there's no time. You can't walk around and get into the mood. Nobody is going to wait for you. They're like, "Let's go!," and I'm like, "Wait, I haven't gotten in the mood!"

Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

Most actors, unless they're big movie stars and can carve out huge chunks of time to focus on one movie that takes six months - the rest of us have to jump around to make ends meet.

Different time, different place," I said. "Things can change. People can change.

I suppose I've been working for a long time, so I've seen all kinds of filmmaking. I can fit into anything, and it doesn't feel that weird or that fascinating.

It gives us more flexibility, so we can do more, but it also creates the expectation of the instant response. It can take away your sense of control over your time.

I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I've got the time.

I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.

I don't believe in anything, yet I believe emphatically in almost everything. It all depends on what seems appropriate at the time.

While this is good and it stores up knowledge and power, at the same time there's a problem with it because it means that a person becomes more fixed.

My material never comes out verbatim every time. I always tweak in a line, or tweak away a line, gain a couple tags or lose a couple tags. The timing is always off.

It is nice in France they adapt themselves to everything slowly they change completely but all the time they know that they are as they were.

All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time.

Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.

Living in America has made me more practical. And, at the same time, exactly the opposite, because I'm very open to different ways of being and seeing that are completely not practical.

I most resemble Benjamin Button. I evolve. I attach myself to the heartbeat of whatever is going on at that particular time, or I just chart a new path.

I like doing things that are very wildly different. I find that the meat and vegetables of being an actor is doing things that are completely different, all the time.

If everything was super easy and I didn't have to face the odd bump in the road or difficult time then I guess my 'resilience muscles' wouldn't be in such good shape.

The 21st century is a really terrible time to be a control freak.

Improvisation, for me, is when the cameras start rolling, we don't know where we're going and let's just waste people's time and money.

I don't know where I'm gonna be two weeks at a time, much less the thing I'm making. I'm just flattered to get the opportunity to do it and to get asked to do it.

I learned a long time ago that the show you're going to see isn't the one you have in your head. As soon as you understand that, you're going to enjoy it a lot more.

Sometimes doing a movie for a short period of time is better than committing eight months to a television show.

With any independent film, it's all about getting everyone's schedules in line and everything together at the same time and just doing the best you can do when that happens - if it happens.