Quotes About Struggle

It's hard to get material. I haven't made a movie before. I have two episodes of television that I think have come in really great, but it's really hard to get directing work.

I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine.

Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people.

We thought about it, what we want to tell, and I didn't want to move it directly into the Nazi times. I thought it's much more interesting to see how BloodRayne became BloodRayne.

Sometimes it's hard for me to express my emotions on a conscious level, to directly say my emotions.

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

I don't even know if I can call myself a director.

I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.

There are some moments where you're so depressed, you cannot see the way, and you're like, 'Whatever. Bite me.' I think all directors feel that way sometimes.

There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.

Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time.

My mom had to be resourceful. She grew up dirt poor in rural Louisiana.

My goal is to beat you whether you're clean or dirty.

Half of the basketball world thinks I'm this hothead, dirty player who can't get anything under control and probably thinks I'm arrogant and a selfish guy.

Politics is a dirty game.

People who have it too easy in early life have a disadvantage for later on, because they get to thinking that everything is going to be easy.

Some people might think that what I've done before made it easier for me to get jobs, but it was actually a disadvantage. I had to work even harder.

No matter who I fight, I'm going to be at a disadvantage in the experience department.

Society might have been better off without them, but we are supposed to look after the disadvantaged, and so we do it. But it doesn't help the society.

Our nation's attitudes toward trade have been shaped by the evolving struggle over who has been helped and who has been disadvantaged by trade policy as our economy has developed.

I grew up in small-town America, black, disadvantaged.

My success as a young athlete contributed to major disagreements between my parents and my mom had to make the ultimate decision to leave.

When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear.

The success was a difficult thing for me to get my head round. When it gets too much, I just have to disappear - to sort my head.