Quotes About Commitment

You sort of get so lulled into thinking of yourself as this five-headed thing, the group, the band, The Hip. I guess you just forget it's a family, and like every good family, you can forget. But you're also committed to each other, so there's always room to grow, to learn and relearn.

As hip-hop artists, you have to take the music seriously, not just as a way to get rich.

I just do hip-hop because I love to do it.

I admire hip-hop artists because they drop so much music.

I learned that you have to say that you're a filmmaker. You're not a screenwriter; you're not a director for hire. You've got to take charge. You're a filmmaker, and you're going to make a film.

I've always worked out. I've always gone to the gym. But it was always a chore, and it was always, like, 'Man, I've gotta go do this because if I don't I'll get all dumpy and out of shape and then no one will hire me for good roles.'

To anyone in the position to hire women directors: Make the commitment.

The shift for me, after spending a long time trying to take existing projects and bring them to fruition as a director for hire, is going back to where I started as a self-generating director. After trying and failing to get so many things made, I have decided that you've just got to do something you really, really love.

When I go to auditions, I try to always make sure I go in prepared. I always think to myself, 'I'm here to provide them with a service. They need me, and if they decide to hire me for this service, I'm going to give them the best they've ever paid for and if they don't, they're dumb.' That's on them.

I don't want to hire people who have less of a commitment than I do.

I'll continue working as long as people want to hire me.

Working with people who have a lot of heart is just the best. You can hire it, but you cannot teach it. It's either there or it's not.

I don't want to become a director for hire.

My husband is an editor, and in fact he was the first person who hired me as an assistant editor. Then we fell in love and the rest was history.

Del Toro absolutely treated me like anyone else - he came to England and hired me, I didnt have to go out there. If that guy gave me the job its my duty to make him think he hasnt made a mistake, so I was prepared for what I had to do.

I thought I was going to be hired as a contributor, but 'The Daily Show' was like, 'Nah, it's an election year, we want you to come over here and work full-time.'

I was hired to make United better, and that's what we'll do.

I'm hired to do a job. They expect me to do a job, and that job requires me to get my butt up and get back to the huddle, get the play and go do it another time. And until I can't physically get up, I'm going to do that.

'Apne' was a disaster. Anil Sharma hired me for three months, but it took a year-and-a-half.

I had a terrible time hiring rich people. It sounds funny, but the problem is when things go wrong they can ask, 'Why am I doing this?' You don't ever want anybody asking that question. You want them to say, 'I know why I'm doing it, I need the money, let's go' or whatever it is that draws them.

If you're hiring a manager for two to three years, you need to get it right.

The man who has done his best has done everything.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

I am not someone who forgets things and changes his way of thinking.