Quotes About Challenges

You're not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was the best, it's all downhill from there.

It kind of came a little bit easier in Nationwide once I figured out what I needed to do driving-wise.

I think a lot of people look at athletes in general and think they have everything figured out. They made it to the big leagues... We're battling and going through the same stuff everyone else is going through, but just in a different way. Maybe it can be comforting knowing that we have to battle through some of the same stuff.

Usually if you haven't figured out how you want to play tennis yourself, it is hard to accept the failures of playing five sets.

I love to watch human beings figuring out their limitations.

You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it.

Making a film is beyond exciting. It's so exciting, it's exhausting.

It is not a happy time when a film doesn't do well... Everything affects you, success affects you and failure also affects you.

Before, I was writing a script to make a movie. At a certain point, I became A Writer in Film and Television. So I got TV deals to write stuff, film deals to write stuff. But it's dangerous. I got into the WGA, and I became kind of, you know, a slave! They just pay you to write a script, and it's hard to make the movies.

The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general.

When I entered the film industry, I hadn't dreamt that I would work in so many movies and opposite so many reigning and future heroes.

I like the constant rise and fall of the British film industry. But above all, I like the workhorses who kept going no matter what.

There is this thing in America where actresses reach 40 and go mad. The film industry wants all these young people.

It's never easy for an actor who doesn't have connections in the film industry and who has to start from scratch.

When I started out, at 19, I was told, by the media and the film industry to do a certain kind of films and work with certain kind of stars. Coming from a non-filmi background, I did not know how to go about it, as there were different people trying to push me in various directions.

When the women in any other film industry are almost equal to men, in Malayalam only one or two women are among the crew.

I know film industry is not a very healthy place to be in.

My father is the son of a farmer so its a little difficult for me to make him understand the fashion and the film industry.

Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming.

When you're filming, you work 19-hour days, and you know more about what's going on with your crew and co-workers than you do with your husband.

I can very much relate to being on the road and filming and trying to train. It's a whole different ball game.

It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.

Good filmmakers make bad films; it happens.

When you're told that as a filmmaker of colour, the stories you want to tell aren't commercial enough, then you start thinking, 'I'm going to tell them anyway.'