Jeremy Davies famous quotes

03-28-2025

Friends are just enemies you donâ€™t know enough about.
-- Jeremy Davies

#Enemy #Enough
A misfit like me getting anywhere in Hollywood as I somehow have, seemed, certainly at the time of 'Spanking The Monkey,' kind of out of reach, or not a very realistic take.
-- Jeremy Davies

#Hollywood #Monkeys #Kind
Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.
-- Jeremy Davies

#School #Acting #Film
All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.
-- Jeremy Davies

#Taken #Desire #Filmmaker
Even the most humble role, I've always felt really wildly grateful to be getting anywhere in film business.
-- Jeremy Davies

#Grateful #Humble #Film
Every film, obviously, everyone starts out aiming at making it good, and in the end, filmmaking is really fragile. Making a film is like building a house of cards on the deck of a speeding boat, or playing chess on train tracks. Every opportunity feels like that; it's the one artistic field that's unlike most of the others.
-- Jeremy Davies

#Opportunity #Track #House
When you write a novel or paint a picture, you have the opportunity to approach it and back off, tear up pages, write, rewrite, paint over, and come back to it. In film, once you start shooting, you can't restart the clock, and you keep moving forward, and you don't look back, and you don't go back. And that is, of course, antithetical to the creative process. It's really hard to generate a comfortable creative flow under that kind of pressure.
-- Jeremy Davies

#Moving #Writing #Opportunity
Self-promotion has never been a point, and I'm incredibly inept at self-promotion. Talking about myself is a little less inspiring than talking about the character.
-- Jeremy Davies

#Character
I think I'm really drawn to filmmakers and artists who are kind of pathologically incapable of thinking straightforward about film, and about life as well, who cannot help but think laterally, think sideways about an approach to anything cinematic.
-- Jeremy Davies

#Artist #Thinking #Helping
I have so many really gifted friends, actors who I thought deserved as much as I did to get an agent or a job, or deserved more, and just never made it through somehow. I've always been really fiercely tethered to that. You know, I've been very lucky. All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.
-- Jeremy Davies

#Taken #Desire #Lucky

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