Quotes About Patience

With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.

I took after my father who was a bricklayer and used to build everything step by step, brick by brick.

In my brief writing life, it means I am still lucky that I have at least one more novel to complete. I do not expect that a story will arrive just because it is time to write another novel. It doesn't happen that way.

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

There's no mantra for bringing up a kid.

It is very difficult to 'make it' as a top broadcaster or YouTuber.

Even if you're lucky to have a play on Broadway like 'Chinglish,' you don't necessarily earn enough off it to support the years it takes to get there.

I always wanted to be a Broadway star. That's actually what I wanted to be when I was a kid. I wanted to be the 19-year-old sensation on Broadway. It took a little bit longer than that.

I broke both legs, which is why I ended up lying in bed for three months. It was six months before I could walk on one leg.

I broke my leg is all I did. I didn't break my brain.

I broke everything inside the house - boom! - but my mother was always very nice. She'd say, 'OK, OK, have another ball.'

I had my both my ACLs repaired in college and I broke my patella, so those were all nine-month ordeals, if not longer.

Some girls just don't know when to put the brush down, when to stop.

We never thought 'Boyhood' was ever gonna become Oscar-considered. Our shooting budget was $2.8m for 12 years. Altogether. I didn't know if anyone would see it or appreciate it.

I spent a long time working in restaurants and making no money. It was very character-building, but I think it could have been built in a shorter time.

I can't change a light bulb.

When your economy is not growing that fast, everybody's got to bite the bullet.

When you're gone from the game so much you miss those things, like just being able to throw a bullpen and work on stuff and having all this time to prepare for the season.

Music always gets bumped until I have some time to get around to it.

It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.

I'm lucky. It's okay that success has come later to me, because I might have burned up if it had happened earlier.

I would train every day after school from 3.30pm until 5.30pm and then I had to take three buses to get home, which would take at least two hours.

I don't want to start producing dressing gowns and cuff links with the Purdey name stamped on them. Making Purdey the leading gunmaker is our priority. Once we have succeeded in doing that, then we might look at some accessories, but it is a long haul.

I don't feel the obligation to have a big explosion in the first 20 seconds so the audience doesn't turn on another channel. We are trying to make something that looks like a feature film that was bought for television and I think we are succeeding.