Charlie Munger Quotes

I spent the first part of my career trying to avoid genre because I felt like genre, in some way, was cliche.

I like crossing the imaginary boundaries people set up between different fields - it's very refreshing.

If I was able to be omniscient and look at my career objectively, I'd be very happy.

The only thing that makes sense to me that I've learnt over the years is knocking tunes together.

I grew up in a family with three siblings. My parents were always very supportive and encouraging. It was important for them that we have meaningful and satisfying professions, but they didn't care as much about success and achievement.

I wanna take what I'm doing and create something around it as opposed to trying to fit into someone else's world.

I look to gain experience wherever I play.

All filmmakers want the option to make another film, to have it not always be such an uphill battle - for it to be our life, our working life.

I am constantly trying to push my boundaries and break the mould that has been made for leading actresses, and it is such great fun.

Don't manage your career. Follow your dream and contribute.

I just try to keep going and work on projects that are exciting to me, with people I respect and enjoy and want to work with. That takes me in different directions sometimes, but it's all been a pretty good ride.

I'm pretty happy with my career. I just know what I'm capable of.

It was one of those early mid-life crises, really. I started asking myself, 'What is it that I want from my life?' This question kept haunting me: 'Do I want to be a lawyer who always wanted to be a writer, or do I actually want to be a writer?

I never expect someone to work with me forever. I want to give you the experience needed so that when it is time to pursue what you want to in life you are ready.

For me, it's beautiful when career and passion come together.

I never really learnt from anyone. I just spent a lot of time at home, knocking things out. It has been interesting going into proper studios, working with people who know everything. But I find it doesn't hinder me.

I am a product of an amalgamation of different teachers. If it was just one teacher, even just my father, I would be half the player that I am today.

I did all sorts of things that you wouldn't normally find on an engineer's docket, but it made an educated person out of me.

When I finish my career, I can look back and then decide if it was good or not.

Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a programmatic and ideological goal. It is not. It is a way of safeguarding creative freedom.

Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.

Pot put me in a position where I could walk far away from my playing and hear it in the second person. It helped me step away from myself. I stopped seeing the guitar as a thing I'm holding in my hands and started seeing it as a thing that's at one with outer space and nothingness.

But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.

When I moved to Paris in the '70s, there wasn't very much going on in film in England. So when I started doing French films, there was a natural movement toward the kind of films I wanted to do. It wasn't the reason I came, but it so happened that I stepped into a time and place that actually corresponded to what I wanted. That sometimes happens in life. And it was rather beautiful.

Some of the young photographers today enter photography where I leave off. My "grandchildren" astound me. What I worked for they seem to be born with. So I wonder where Their affirmations of Spirit will lead. My wish for them is that their unfolding proceeds to fullness of Spirit, however astonishing or anguished their lives.