Yoko Ono Quotes

There's nothing worse than the frustration of having somebody who you feel doesn't get what you're doing, trying to turn it into something else. It's a very, very annoying and sort of frustrating thing and I just never wanted to go through it. I was very fortunate as I came up through the film business that I was able to insulate myself from that.

It's sad when you can't make everyone happy, though. It's impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, 'Maybe I can do it,' but you know you can't. But gosh, if I had to rely on giving people what they wanted, I would have had to write 40 billion different books and even then, I wouldn't get it right.

It's hard when you put a year of good work into something and someone at the top says no, and they pull your show's title off a bulletin board and chuck it in the trash.

My daughter is a bit annoyed with me that she didn't get to meet Baby Yoda.

Sometimes it seemed like it was never good enough, no matter what I did.

I've never made the film I wanted to make. No matter what happens, it never turns out exactly as I hoped.

Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong.

Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.

So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.

After you get what you want you don't want it.

The blind date that has stood you up: your life.

The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

People think I'm against critics because they are negative to my work. That's not what bothers me. What bothers me is they didn't see the work. I have seen critics print stuff about stuff I cut out of the film before we ran it. So don't tell me about critics.

I draw hundreds and hundreds of pictures of sort of gnarly looking men, so I don't know what that tells you. People who look like... they're waiting for a sandwich that's never going to come. I don't know what's wrong with me.

I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.

You cannot say that you are happy when you don't win.

When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.

Some people will always be disappointed.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

When you get out of the car after the feeling that you have after leading the race, and the car fails, it's pretty hard to say positive things all the time.

I was very unhappy when I used to record and things wouldn't turn out the way I would want to, because I was being such a nice girl. I wouldn't complain when things were going wrong.

When you give your all as an artist, and all people can talk about is what pants you're wearing, it's really frustrating.

By the time I'm done with a project, it's taken so long that I usually don't even like it anymore. I only see the things I wish I'd done differently.

It's always disappointing when your work is not received as you hope it would be.

The indie movie world is like a bad Tinder date, and there are always strings attached.