Guillaume Canet Quotes

I wish I knew what was next. I got this movie without planning to. I'm really excited to be continuing in film because it's a great job but I have my portfolio and resume for any other opportunity.

I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.

After 'Raymond,' there was this big feeling of, 'What do I do next?'

I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.

I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.

It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.

The career doesn't get any easier. A career stays tough.

I started to make some commercials, which was a way for me to finally make a living at last. But it was only really a couple of films in that it looked like a viable career option.

In '48 when I left Metro, I tried to go back to radio, but somehow just didn't do well at it.

As tough as it is for many college graduates to get their planned careers on track, it could be worse: They could be trying to find a job without a college degree.

It's hard in this business to get the opportunities to show off range.

When I started in the business, you did television, and then when you got lucky, you got a prestige project of a film.

I didn't always have research jobs.

When I came back to Hong Kong in 1992, I decided to pursue a new career challenge.

When I was in MTV, I wasn't really looking out to do films.

Coming from losing my dream of playing professional football, not having a college degree at the time and looking to jump into the business world at a young age was pretty daunting for me.

I was 19 or 20 when I was confused whether to take up films as a career. At that juncture, I enrolled in an acting workshop and then eventually realised I was destined to be in films.

I've done a lot of different things. I would say, it's really hard for me to say what the ultimate role would be. You look at a film if it comes to you.

I was a kiddie pool attendant, and I was a white rapper. That's not going to get you a job on Wall Street.

As you build your career, you know where you want to go. I'm definitely moving towards films. That's definitely a goal. I'm definitely going to put it out there.

After I finished university and started going to auditions again, and I also did a bunch of other jobs. I worked in the insurance industry, the digital media industry; I worked in a financial services company for three years.

I had a couple rough patches early in my career. I think I might have made some bad choices here and there.

I don't want to plan my career. That would be a business plan. Filmmaking is not a business plan.

My dad used to cut out newspaper ads and post them to me in the hope I'd get a proper job.

I just want to be at the best place possible to ensure that I really kick on in my career, that I constantly have challenges, because in football, you don't have long. It's easy to become complacent when game time comes so easily, and you're doing so well.