Olivier Megaton Quotes

There's chaos out there, and chaos means opportunity.

My job, as an actor, is to give the director options. You can only hope that the takes that you thought were the best were chosen. But, then again, if I don't watch it, I'll never know.

In the world of independent filmmaking, you're never quite sure what's happening when and where.

Everything went perfectly on 'In Bruges.' It was constant warfare, but I won all the battles and was really happy working with the actors and everything on the film.

I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.

The world is unpredictable.

As a director, it just makes my life fantastic to work with people like Elizabeth Hawthorne.

It amazes me how much noise there is on a set while people are trying to focus and do their jobs. But there's some kind of order within that chaos.

When you make a movie, you don't know how it'll turn out. You can only guess.

The world is teeming; anything can happen.

In the film industry you never really know if all the various ingredients will come together - sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't. As an actor, you don't have much control over those things. It's a director's medium in that sense. All you can really do is minimise the risks of being involved in something that might not work and look for something that also suits you.

My advice is to go for the messes - that's where the action is.

Once you get the script, you then hope you can get the director that you want. Then you hope he can get the cast he wants. Again, you can go quickly or there can be a million stumbling blocks. There's just no way to know.

Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon.

I would love to be able to get behind the camera and direct actors. I think that would be a lot of fun.

When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.

The only thing I do know is that from chaos comes opportunity.

Making a movie is a weird combination of planning and the absolutely unexpected.

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, then all at once it gets awkward.

I don't know whether we will find ourselves in the cross hairs, pulled by the short hairs, or just trying to find the next inane hairstyle. But change is coming; it is inevitable. It is as steady and reliable as a ticking clock.

To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.

You never know what's coming for you.

Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.

That wind. I see it's blowing now. Furtive but commanding, it has dictated every move we've ever made. My mother felt it, and so do I - even here, even now - as it sweeps us like leaves into his backseat corner, dancing us to shreds against the stones. V'la l'bon vent, v'a l'joli vent. I though we'd silenced it for good. But the smallest thing can wake the wind@ a word, a sign, even a death. There's no such thing as a trivial thing. Everything costs; it all adds up until finally the balance shifts and we're gone again, back on the road, telling ourselves - well maybe next time