Quotes About Persistence

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

I created, wrote, produced, and starred in my first-ever acting gig!

There are a huge amount of people who sell a TV pilot every year, but most of them never get produced. It's very easy to make a living and never get anything produced.

I never doubted that if I applied myself and tried to learn that I would good at it. I've had a lot of lucky turns, no doubt. But it's actually been a fairly direct line from control-freak, cartoon-obsessed kindergartner to control-freak, cartoon-obsessed executive producer.

If you really want to be a music producer, stop watching 'Friends' when you get home from school. Start trying to make music. If you're not going to try, then it's impossible. When you try, it's always possible.

I think every artist, producer, believe's that it's going to happen at some point and time. You never want to just hear that you not gonna make it.

It took 17 years to get 'Rambling Rose' made from the time Calder Willingham wrote the script adapted from his novel. Ed Scherick, the producer, was interested in it. Martha Coolidge was interested in directing it.

'Bahubali' did not happen overnight. The producer Shobhu Yarlagadda, Prabhas, and I kept talking and discussing and imagining.

If you're always waiting for a producer to hire you... your chances are really, really small. I've been knocking on doors and asking for a job for many years, and my career really changed when I decided to create my own material.

I had people who said I was a brilliant producer but I wouldn't get on the news because I was too northern. But there was no way I was changing my accent - it is the key to my identity.

I didn't knock on any producers' doors for work.

When I was very young, around 11 or 12, when I started actually meeting people, trying to get work, I had to meet producers, directors but I didn't have the platform.

If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke. Always.

Working on 'NYPD Blue' and '24', those two series, I did full runs on those. It's great work, but everything has to align. The producers have to want you; the network has to want you; there has to be great writing; and it's not as easy as it may appear to the outsiders to make all those things align.

I tell my students based on my experiences in Hollywood, sure, you can always move to L.A. and try to work with the system, and people do that, but chances are if you want your story in film with characters of color, you will have to make that movie yourself. Find a way to make it yourself. Not just screenwriters, but also producers.

For me, I always had producers come to me with films, even if it was not like the Khans, but whatever I have got I have tried to give my best to it.

The 'Okay-I'll-give-it-a-try-but-I-don't-think-it-will-work' attitude produces failures.

It's a lot of work that goes into producing and directing and all those kinds of things. It doesn't just happen. It's a lotta work. It's a lot more work than acting.

If I'm producing, I'm not acting, and it's such a long road to get anything off the ground.

Producing words isn't a problem for me. And I usually write two books at a time. When one horse gets winded, you jump on the other.

I got written out of 'G.I. Joe' and was like, 'Welp, I'm going to go back to what I do: writing and producing comedy.'

I like producing, but I don't love it. I love acting. I got into producing because I had a bad time in 1989 when no work was coming in.

I'm always going to be heavy in producing. It's always going to come first. It never can't come first.

I had taken a bit of a sabbatical because I was producing and directing films. But acting has always been my passion and it is something that I will continue to do.