... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they had anything that exalts, delights, or adorns humanity, we have nothing but cant, cant, cant.
As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you cant possibly please everyone.
You can’t second-guess baseballyou can’t second-guess yourself.
You can't second-guess baseball. You can't second-guess yourself.
Just take me with you. Please. I cant. Please, Papa. I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could but I cant.
Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.
If you don't second-guess yourself, then you are not trying to get better.
Always give a hundred percent, and you'll never have to second-guess yourself.
Life is very short, and if you worry what people think of you, if you second-guess yourself, you're in trouble.
I really took filmmaking very seriously... It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I'm a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies.
I think a lot of times you start to second-guess yourself, especially as a young player, but you've got to have confidence that everything will be all right.
the thing is you can get used to anything you think you cant you want to die but you dont you cant you just are
Skeptical doesn't have to necessarily be a negative thing. I think if you allow yourself to second guess things and look at things from a distance you don't immediately run into things blindfolded, so that's a positive.
When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall.
We've been fighting our whole lives to say we're just human beings like everyone else. When we start separating ourselves in our work, that doesn't help the cause. I've heard it for years: 'How do you feel being a black filmmaker?' I'm not a black filmmaker, I'm a filmmaker. I'm a black man, I have black children. But I'm just a filmmaker.