Nothing ever goes as planned in China.
The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect.
Crisis is not a nine-to-five job... Crisis happens when you least expect it.
Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.
The last occasions when the timetable of our lives would be interrupted for many years to come.
It's something you hope doesn't happen. When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.
Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.
Having overthrown this one devil, we might be facing seven new devils .
You're not always going to have a perfect day. You're not always going to have the day that you envision.
It's always tricky to play against a player who you've never played against.
I'll always find the hardest path. Needless to say, not always a good idea.
In football, however well you think you are doing, however well your life is going, there is always a mugger there lurking in the shadows to bash you over the head when you least expect it.
Life is filled with trapdoors.
The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.
You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.
When you're young, you're immortal, or so you think, and you never think there will be problems ahead.
The detour is always rougher than the main road
You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out.
There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.
If you do outline, you have to be aware of the problems that that kind of thing can cause.
The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.
Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable.
