I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did.
Interpretation
You cannot control how others perceive your work, only put forth your best effort.
This quote emphasizes the idea that regardless of the effort and dedication you put into your work, particularly in the film industry, you cannot dictate how others will react or judge it. People have their own opinions shaped by various factors, and all you can do is create and promote your work with hope and authenticity.
In practice
During a motivational speech about embracing creativity despite criticism.
Mozambique is having an economic resurgence but still four out of 10 people there have HIV or AIDS...There's astounding conditions but what I was left with...was the power of the human spirit there and the fact these people have been through so much and they were still dancing in the streets
The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it. As for myself, I'm not really sure who I am. I change every day.
My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.
I lived in Hollywood and, ironically, I didn't know you could just go out and get an agent and go on auditions and try and become an actor, I thought it was like a Masonic thing, like a blood line you had to belong to – until I was 13. Then I realised what you had to do. It is the one thing I know I want to do for the rest of my life.
As a young boy, I was obsessed with endangered species and the extinct species that men killed off. Biology was the subject in school that I was incredibly passionate about.
Mother Earth is hurting. And she needs a generation of thoughtful, caring and active kids like all of you to protect her for the future.
This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue.
An ounce of heart knowledge is worth a ton of head learning.
Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
So, friends, every day do something that won't compute...Give your approval to all you cannot understand...Ask the questions that have no answers. Put your faith in two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years...Laugh. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts....Practice resurrection.
Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterwards.
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.
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