top of page
More

"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again."
Author Name
Personal Development

"You sign for a sequel for everything these days, just in case, options. In the past, you avoided them like the plague because it meant somewhere down the road you couldn't take a job because you had to do a sequel. Now it's a feature of pretty much any feature you do."
Author Name
Personal Development

"When you do a job like this you have to like having cold sweat on your back."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Getting to play superheros is a pretty good job."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor."
Author Name
Personal Development
More

"I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare."
Experience

"The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it."
Film

"I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse."
Movies

"So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies."
Love

"I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age."
Age

"I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it."
Love

"I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing."
Time

"The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince."
Movies

"I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about."
History

"But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project."
Work
bottom of page