Quotes About Adaptation

Doing 'SunTrap' after 'The Chase' is dipping into something different. That's the whole basis of what I wanted to do with my career. I didn't want to do the same thing all the time.

If your form dips as a back-row forward, it is best to address the areas you know you're going to be heavily involved in.

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.

I do like directing other people's material.

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.

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

There was always a conscious effort on my part to do different cinema. It's taken time for the directors to accept me.

You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.

I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.

Most companies that are successful listen to people and see what they want and they make that. So when I used to make songs, I'd make mixtapes. The public would tell me what they like and then I would make songs based on what they like. That's how I knew 'Ridin' Dirty' was going to be big - they told me they liked this kind of music.

There's been no two Dirty Projectors records that have had the same cast of characters every time.

Playing without a crowd is a disadvantage.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

People have said for years 'never work with children or animals' but I couldn't disagree more.

I didn't disappear; I started writing songs and worked behind the scenes.

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

I've had to learn that not everybody does things my way. But I do expect the absolute best of everyone around me, and I'm disappointed when people don't expect that of themselves.

The England manager didn't think I was good enough, and as a professional, you have to take it. Sure, it was disappointing, but all you can do is carry on playing well for your club and hope it changes. Unfortunately, it didn't.

In the year 2020, I was at home, it was so disappointing.

I don't think there's any disappointment in my career because everything that maybe didn't go my way was a learning experience.

I now have 10 years' more experience from when I broke into the game. I can deal with disappointments easier, and all of that helps to make me a better player. It's the same in any walk of life, in any job.

I tried to play sports, which was a disaster and probably one of the reasons I ended up being an actress.

I used to bowl a lot of seam-up for Tamil Nadu and then my pelvic disc slipped. Then I just started batting, I didn't want to bowl at all. I wanted to do nothing with bowling.