Quotes About Expectations

The first war movie I ever saw was 'Platoon,' and I was eight months pregnant. So my husband, producer Charles Roven, wasn't sure I'd make it.

As an actress I knew I had to control my weight gain somehow as any director or producer would like to sign in a svelte actress.

Saying no to a project is not easy. I'm always under the impression that I might end up upsetting the director or producer of a film.

There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Producers get very jittery about things.

Personally, I've always had to face casting directors or producers saying, 'You're right for the part, but nahh, you're not quite what we're looking for.'

At 21, right out of college, I had two producers, about my age, who had never produced a show before, and they wanted me to write and produce an hour-long show before I turned 22. Which is a whole lot of work for someone who's just an 'airhead.'

I had to really learn what it meant to be on a set and what the expectations were and what producers are. I had to learn who I'm talking to and what their functions are. I had a couple of gaffes: I would ask a person a question, and it wasn't their job. I had to Google their job description. That was the first big adjustment.

Record labels and producers are not looking to change you: they are looking to make a star. And what they might think is a star may not be you.

I try to keep up to my producers' expectations. Sometimes, I can; sometimes, I cannot.

Maybe this is pathetic, but I still dread producing a book that doesn't earn back its advance. I hate obligations that are financially foggy.

When you don't make the playoffs, or you're not producing a product that you're proud of, then, yeah, it's tough on everybody... it's tough on the fans all the way down.

Coach Rivera and I are very close and I don't want to ever just get comfortable thinking I'm his guy or he believes in me. That doesn't matter if you're not producing on the field.

I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.

More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

I know how much money goes into every minute of production and how many people are counting on me, so I don't ever want to be one to let anyone down.

A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.

I always feel guilty for having a day off because I feel like I'm not being productive.

Having a constant productive anxiety doesn't mean that people are miserable and wailing but that people know they will be held accountable if things do not go right.

I feel as much pressure as anyone does about their work, really. You just want to be productive; only difference is that the work is seen and judged by a few more people.

I think if I was less exigent with myself, maybe I would be more productive, because I would put less pressure on my shoulders.

Many, many people - many parents feel that their decisions are, maybe not, great decisions. Every parent has that, you know, parent guilt of my goal is to produce wonderful, productive individuals and put them out into society.

Because I was involved in so many other areas of life and so many productive activities, I wasn't judged for not being a mother. There was no pressure on me for not having children.

I don't even use profanity when I'm angry. I think people expected I'd have written a nice romance or something.