Wisdom

"My approach to what I do in my job… and it might even be the approach to my life… is that everything I do is the most important thing I do. Whether it’s a play or the next film. It is the most important thing. I know it’s not going to be the most important thing, and it might not be close to being the best, but I have to make it the most important thing.

That means I will be ambitious with my job and not with my career. That’s a very big difference…because if I’m ambitious with my career, everything I do now is just stepping-stones leading to something… a goal I might never reach, and so everything will be disappointing. But if I make everything important, then eventually it will become a career.

Big or small, we don’t know. But at least everything was important."

— Mads Mikkelsen

“I don’t like the term ‘success.’ It implies finality that has always felt misleading. We all live many lives, the experience of each compounding on the next. The attachment to a singular end-state defined by a milestone in a career seriously misses greater existential truths for me that are more interested in experimentation, iteration, and circularity.” — Ara Katz

The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light.

— James Baldwin, Nothing Personal