Dominic Monaghan Quotes

It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.

When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.

Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste.

I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.

I love the idea that I have the power to look for the projects I can put myself into, but I'm still at that level of just being happy to have a job.

I have zero strategy for my career - like, zero. I could get as much satisfaction about doing a $20,000 shot film the same way I could do a $100 million film with a bunch of effects.

I'm happy with my place in the firmament here. I like to produce movies and that's where I want to be.

After all, a job isn't worth doing unless you enjoy it.

Once you get an offer from Steven Soderbergh, you just do anything you can to make it fit.

I want to make my own movie.

I'm at my happiest when I'm on a movie set. It's like therapy for me.

I'm not particularly a career-oriented guy. I'm lucky. I can make really interesting films much of the time with interesting people yet be anonymous, have a private life. But, I'd like to have the choice of the better roles.

What career? A man's got a body of film of about four movies in about 10 years or something. I do it because I think I can do a good job of something and I'll enjoy it, do it, and sort of vanish. I don't want to be an actor for hire.

With acting, you can find a way to make it interesting for yourself, if nobody else - even on big-budget films. But you're very much on your own.

I think the one thing that I've experienced with American films is just that the size tends to be so much bigger, the budgets have been bigger, the size of the sets have been bigger, the number of people working on them is bigger, but that's not to say that I haven't been able to get close to people or develop good relationships.

Not all of our movies work, but we take shots, and we're able to do that because we really stick to low budgets.

I prefer directing to producing as it is far more satisfying.

Legendary is in the unique position in that they have the resources to take risks, which I think has really benefitted 'Pacific Rim.'

Hollywood and Bollywood films cannot be compared because of their budgets!

Creative satisfaction is highly underrated. When you don't have it, the money doesn't spend nearly as well.

The more I work in the film business, the more I see that those guys, the directors, have the most fun on set.

Motivation, basically getting people to be happy at work, everybody - everybody benefits.

Better a street-sweeper in Mexico than a filmmaker in Germany!

I love being an actor and a job is a job, and I'm always happy to have a job.

If I'm not working, I'm not happy. That's it. That's the prerequisite for me for happiness.