So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.
Michael York

Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.
John Malkovich

Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident.
Eric Roberts

Spike Lee is obviously more stupid than anyone can be by accident.
Dick Armey

Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident.
Lauren Bacall

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.
Alan Rickman

The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.
Morgan Freeman

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.
Kathryn Bigelow

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Albert Einstein

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
Charles Lamb

The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.
Peter Conrad

The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.
Gary Wright

The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'
James Naismith

The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.
Michael Ondaatje

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.
Wole Soyinka

The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
Sally Ride

Then I became interested in drama, and almost by accident, I drifted into film.
Mike Figgis

There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.
Leif Garrett

There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
Ted Nugent

There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.
Leon Trotsky