Sporadic Work Quotes

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Session work is not a steady thing at all. You do eight of them in one week and then go three months without any. That's the way it really is.

Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present. This is one of the ways in which women's work and thinking has been made to seem sporadic, errant, orphaned of any tradition of its own.

I'm not really into the fame side of things, so I'm very happy with making a film every four years or so.

I am not very regimented unless I have to be. I wish I was someone that could just write every day, but I tend to work on specific projects for a specific period of time and then stop.

No, I'm not very productive at all. I'm probably like an animal. I mean, great animals in the ocean feed all the time. I'm someone who procrastinates, worries, for most of a month, and then I'll have a flurry of manic productivity with a sense of great urgency and fear for, like, two days.

I don't do enough movies that I can call it a career. It really is sort of like summer jobs or something like that. It's very much like holiday work as far as, okay, I do it, and I'm there for two weeks and hopefully am working really hard, and then it's done, and I kind of go back to what I was doing before.

I only work once or twice a year for about a month, so I have a lot of free time. But I'm good at being alone, which helps.

I was never really a child actor. I was working sporadically in indie films in Pennsylvania, but I was still living at home.

I've sort of left the theater just for little shoots here and there - little one-off series or small roles in films or whatever.

My schedule, it always looks like it's really steady, but believe it or not, I tend to work a bunch and then take a year off.

One day I'm not busy at all; the next day I have work for months - that's kind of the way it works!