Quotes About Work

I can tell you about the education programs, because that's where I lived and worked.

The Ways and Means Committee for me has this opportunity to work with programs where I can take my parents' sense of community and make it work.

We need to make sure our government programs encourage work, not dependence.

Macintosh felt like a system. As I learned more, I felt like I was able to guess how new things would work. I felt like the bugs in my programs were more my bugs and not things I misunderstood.

I have no preconceived notions of what SBA programs work or not.

While I am willing to compromise on process or on programs, I will not compromise my principles, nor would I expect those I work with to do so.

For parents who work, afterschool programs can be a crucial support system, but too many communities have limited options.

I'm not interested in making all-black films - I come from a very diverse culture; I want to work with every type of person. I work a lot with women executives because they seem to be a lot more open minded about that and a lot more progressive in that way.

I'm a Democrat in that I work towards progressive things, but I also am laser-like focused in my desire to actually get things done and not just talk about it.

'Project Runway' made my name more high-profile. I've gotten to work with a lot of different celebrity clients that I never would have otherwise.

I believe that if creative people are open and generous enough when working with each other, a lot more can be learned and achieved by both parties. That's what it's all about, trying to produce the best work possible on any given project.

I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it. I can't believe it when writers tell me 'I don't want to show my work to anybody'.

I don't know if there's a particular project, but one movie that I was really disappointed I didn't get to work on was Judd Apatow's 'Walk Hard.'

It's my job to really commit myself to the material and the project and be proud of what I've done, and I am in most cases.

Through that, I got to know Jerry's work, and I am definitely his number-one fan right now, which is interesting because it usually works the other way around: you usually create a project based on your hero.

This mission was the project of a decade's work.

When I was 16 or 17, when I started, I never even considered not doing a project. I just wanted to work.

I had two major activities as a child. I was trying to put on shows with kids in my street, or I was drawing. Actually, what I'm doing now is exactly what I was doing then. Either I'm drawing, or I'm gathering people for a common project. The only difference is that now they are paying me for that.

To me, it's about good work, a good story, and tastefully done. There's so many stigmas - oh, you're on the small screen or you do films or you do reality. It's about the project and not the medium on which it's delivered. It's the story you tell, period.

I don't care where I have to go for work. I just care that it's a good project. That's what I want.

I'm lucky that I have a deep, strong voice naturally, and the rest of it I just worked on as far as confidence and projecting myself.

I guess when I look over my shoulder at other designers, I feel like people are so definitive. It's so clear to me what their aesthetic is, what they're projecting. And I look at my own work and I think, Who could ever decipher what the hell is going on?

I can see myself doing production work and handling projects behind the scenes.

I'm not partial to any system, but at the same time, I'm a Korean actor, so I expect to work mainly on Korean projects.