- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Work Quotes
Quotes on the meaning of work.
Several quotes here describe work as a solitary process, one that takes real effort to protect from distraction, while others connect a person's politics directly to the character of their work. Related reading includes Growth Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.
- Pink
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- Nov 07, 2020
The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that's where I cut, cut, cut.
- Fruit
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- Nov 07, 2020
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
- Conviction
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- Nov 07, 2020
If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so many years of reading story. You leave work and it goes away till you see it air on television.
- Nov 07, 2020
I say my greatest strength is my speed, and I think that I could use some work on my concentration.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not everyone likes watching rushes, but it makes me work harder, and I don't feel I am watching myself, but watching the progression of the character.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you share work, and you have the opportunity of seeing people you like doing what they do best, and you also interchange socially with them, it's very addictive.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020