Desiree Akhavan famous quotes

Don't wait for someone to enable you to make something.
-- Desiree Akhavan

#Waiting

I have really strong feelings about sex scenes in movies. I care a lot about sexuality and how it's depicted in mainstream media, period, but what I know is movies, and what I find is that they tend to be kind of one-note.
-- Desiree Akhavan

#Strong #Sex #Media

Sometimes somebody has an amazing house party and you meet great people and you dance - I've had incredible experiences. But they have been so much fewer than the awful experiences where you're just standing around like, "Why did I come here? We're all just putting on a show for each other and I might as well be in a museum."
-- Desiree Akhavan

#Party #Museums #People

I don't believe in being lazy, but I do think that this "big kid" thing may just be misinterpreting people who are taking advantage of all their opportunities and not tying themselves down to traditional gender roles or traditional life roles.
-- Desiree Akhavan

#Believe #Kids #Opportunity

I'm a director and a writer, and I'm used to having my way. I'm not used to being a vessel for other people.
-- Desiree Akhavan

#People #My Way #Vessel

Perhaps one day I will be fortunate enough to be upset over how I misunderstood I am. A girl can dream.
-- Desiree Akhavan

#Girl #Dream #Upset

Creatively, editing was the most painful part of the process for me.
-- Desiree Akhavan

#Editing #Painful #Process

I think I'm incredibly self-aware to a fault.
-- Desiree Akhavan

#Thinking #Self #Faults

It's hard to see potential in a rough cut - especially with comedy, which is hit or miss. This is where my lack of experience hurt me - not in the execution of the final product, but with my expectations for it in the early stages of post.
-- Desiree Akhavan

#Hurt #Cutting #Expectations

Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind--these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell. It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.

Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis ...

Waiting is a large part of living. Great, passive, negative chunks of our time are consumed by waiting, from birth to death. Waiting is a special kind of activity - if activity is the right word for it - because we are held in enforced suspension between people and places, removed from the normal rhythms of our days and lives.

We're all waiting for the opportunity to do big films but you have to wait your turn - unless you get offered something like Twilight when you're 20! Otherwise, you just have to keep slogging away.

Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.

I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.

When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.