Quotes About Success

It was really hard to find another project after my first film.

I'm not lying, every single project I've done, they've all been great.

I heard about the project over a year before we began. My American agent said, 'Oh, you might want to read 'In Cold Blood' because they're talking about you for Capote, but the script's with Johnny Depp and Sean Penn at the moment.' So, these things take their time to dribble down the food chain.

When I am about to have a difficult project, I dream I am climbing a mountain. When everything is going fine, I dream I am going down the mountain.

You don't project yourself in the Hall of Fame as a player. It's only during that five-year period where people start asking about it, and it doesn't seem real until it happens.

I don't care where I have to go for work. I just care that it's a good project. That's what I want.

There's competition in every field, and that's healthy. It makes you work harder and be your best. Competition, not in terms of money or number of projects, but in the quality of your work, is very healthy.

Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had been in jail.

I was lucky enough to co-found a business in college that ended up with 400 employees, and I launched 20 different projects while I was there - a project a week.

Well I've got lots more great TV projects in the pipeline.

People so far have been very fond of the Robert Altman movie, as I am, and when one things goes well it shines light on your other projects and now I seem to have a number of projects that are moving forward.

I enjoy working with Melissa a great deal. We're always looking for projects to do together. I was happy to have her do the show, because she doesn't normally do episodic unless she's starring, and I was very happy with the results.

You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.

You make your first album, you make some money, and you feel like you still have to show face, like 'I still go to the projects.' I'm like, why? Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out. You grew up there. What makes you think it's so cool?

I could probably make more money if I did more commercial projects.

I look at all my projects as a stair step to the next. My goal is to always get better and better.

Without doing the big blockbusters, I wouldn't be able to find the money to go after little projects that I want to do.

For me, it's about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That's what's big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I'm in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

I think 'Mindhunter' has allowed me to get a chance to do larger projects.

I concentrate on doing good projects.

Like any other actor, I want to be part of good projects.

I typically don't get into predicting the success of my projects. I've been involved with a lot of projects that I thought should have really gained notoriety and furthered my career, only to be met with the cold grasp of disappointment. So I typically stay away from predicting how a film will do.

I got a lot of artists, and I been dropping all my artists' projects, and they going up.

The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.