Quotes About Challenges

I find parties difficult. I like a dinner party, but I find being at parties difficult, so I choose not to go to parties.

People tell you not to work with children and animals, and I chose to work with a 7-year-old and several dinosaurs!

I think when it's a high-stress situation, my tennis definitely takes a big dip.

When I was girl, you could still get certain jobs if you didn't have a diploma.

In a chaotic world, U.S. diplomats will probably have even less contact with the people they need to reach.

Every season will have its dips and hard moments, and the challenge then is to make sure you don't get too down in those moments and make sure you come back fighting.

I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier.

The best actors are always the ones who've directed as well, as they understand all the problems you face.

For female directors, there's a whole other set of things we have to think about, particularly when we are casting men, because there are some actors who have never been directed by a woman. Crew members, too.

I act here and there but you have to commit so far out in advance when you're directing that you - I'm kind of booked six months out, so it's hard.

Directing films is easier said than done. The job needs a lot of sensibility to put many things in place.

My directing opportunities have been awesome, and my acting opportunities, some have been great and some have not.

It's hard to get material. I haven't made a movie before. I have two episodes of television that I think have come in really great, but it's really hard to get directing work.

When I was a CEO, the books on management that I read weren't very much help after the first few months on the job. They were all designed to give you directions on how not to screw up your company.

I think the American people are bombarded with information from all directions, all day long.

I can take scripts directly to actors. Agents don't like to hear that.

Sometimes it's hard for me to express my emotions on a conscious level, to directly say my emotions.

I had a casting director tell me to be blacker.

I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.

The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.

I feel terrible for directors of TV because all the episodes have to look the same. They make a great series for five or six years, and then when it's canceled, they can't break out on their own.

There are some moments where you're so depressed, you cannot see the way, and you're like, 'Whatever. Bite me.' I think all directors feel that way sometimes.

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

There was always a conscious effort on my part to do different cinema. It's taken time for the directors to accept me.