Quotes About Challenge

Everything that's written about me has such a negative taint. It just has a life of its own, like an avalanche, and I don't think there's anything I can do to stop it.

I think that the biggest challenge for me making films is how much of your life you give to something. Shooting the film requires 14-hour days, six days a week.

In New York, you're forced to deal with life; it's there in front of you on a daily basis.

Funny how life messed with you.

I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.

That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun.

Golden rule of life: never underestimate your rivals.

If you tiptoe into cold water, you're missing out on the rush of plunging in headfirst.

The best results I have had in my life; the most enjoyable times, have all come from asking the simple question: 'What is the worst that could happen?'

The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life.

Life entails risk, and you have to draw some lines.

A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.

Every major difficulty you face in life is a fork in the road. You choose which track you will head down, toward breakdown or breakthrough.

There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.

I don't know if I thrive in normal life.

There is really no end to life's little humiliations.

Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble.

It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.

Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.

...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.

Life is not a popularity contest. Take the hill, but first answer the question: What is my hill?.

The game of life is worth playing, but the struggle is the prize.

Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life.

It's a hard life if you don't weaken.