Quotes About Change

I float from one project to another project, so you miss people and you don't see them for years.

I've had fun doing romantic comedies, but I just can't anymore. There's nothing fulfilling creatively, there's nowhere to grow, nothing to learn from it or for yourself. I'd rather just be home with my family or write music until that special project comes my way.

I don't miss film projecting. I always hated it.

I do have a concern about projecting. I've never projected or had any reason to project before. In fact, the camera has only gotten closer to me going from TV to film.

My intention is to get more involved in social projects so I can give people a message of hope.

I am confident only when I am constantly in motion. Between projects, the doubt creeps in.

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

I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. This isn't always where it was at for me, I started working when I was a kid. I'm just a different person now, I'm 30. I started working when I was 11 and it's a different ballgame.

Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.

I have begun several projects which were never completed, not necessarily because they failed, but because I got interested in other things.

Some projects go as you hope or imagine, and some change or reveal themselves in a different way; it depends.

Whether I am collaborating with different people, I like changing projects conceptually so I can grow.

Should 50 per cent of Telefilm's projects be helmed, produced, or written by women? I think so.

I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.

I went from the projects to a real house. It was a big difference.

When we prolong negative behavior - the kind that hurts the people we love or the kind that hurts us in some way - we are leading a changeless life in the most hazardous manner. We are willfully choosing to be miserable and making others miserable, too.

The trouble was that I tried to prolong my youth.

I wrote 'Echo' a few months after moving out of my sister's apartment in Atlanta. I was 17 and just finished high school. I didn't go to prom and didn't walk the stage. I just dipped.

When I was growing up, white people made fun of me. So it was always strange to me as I would gain prominence in hip hop, white people kind of accepted me more and they would talk to me more. It's so weird to me, growing up, thinking about that in my life. It really is a complete change.

These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but they tell us not why it flows onward and will ever flow.

Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world creates a change in the character, usually for the better. To not have an arc, the messages and ideas in the film became more prominent.

It's fun being pregnant at the same time as someone as prominent as Kim Kardashian. Seeing her beautiful body change and morph makes me remember mine is doing the same, and although it may not always feel beautiful, it really is.

Creative destruction is an increasingly prominent feature of modern medical practice.

Childhood is a promise that is never kept.