Quotes About Persistence

The story of '3 Mics' is the story of a guy who wants to be something and is sort of figuring out how he gets there.

I'm kind of resistant to being told no, not being wanted. It fills me with energy.

You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!

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

I don't think the failure of one film means the end of your career.

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.

Though there is lot of struggle, nothing deterred my ambition to get into the film industry.

All I can say is I want to remain in the film industry.

When I was young, I wanted, most of all, to be a writer of films and film music. But Middlesbrough in 1968 wasn't the place to be if you wanted to do movie scores.

After film school, I would write 8 hours a day on film and 8 hours a night on TV, and then sleep once and a while.

I'm a filmmaker first, nothing else matters.

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

I'm not the kind of filmmaker who's going to go from one thing to the next. I often wish I was that filmmaker, but I'm just not.

We've always wanted to be filmmakers.

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.'

I wanted to be a filmmaker since I was a kid. I always did things that took me a little closer to that.

Filmmaking is like any kind of art form. You have to try to figure it out, and you're going to do that by trying.

Success and failure are a part of filmmaking.

Filmmaking is never easy as long as you continue learning from the process.

I taught myself filmmaking on my own.

I acted in 'Aap Kaa Surroor,' which did well. But after that, films didn't work for me.

In the last 10 to 12 years when things were not going my way, I was just writing scripts. I have a bank of 10 to 12 scripts for web-series, films and short films.

I have to say, Franz in 'Rock of Ages,' I had three final callbacks for that role before I booked it - it was something that I'd dreamed of. I wanted to play that role. I love that show.

You're never out of the game until you've lost the final point.