Quotes About Progress

I'm an artist with a message, and my message is more for society, casting the mirror onto them and saying, 'Hey, this is what we look like, what are we going to do about it, how are we going to use what we've been through to aid where we're going.'

I always try to better myself with every movie I make. I don't take anything sitting back, and so I try to learn from every film I make and carry that onto the next movie because I think it's important as a filmmaker to keep growing with each film, and I think I am growing with each movie.

I don't work with a lot of pressure, you know? I don't think, 'Oh, this one has gotta work or I'm finished.' I just kind of get onto the next one.

The Yardbirds sort of disbanded, and I was disappointed because I thought what we were doing was really good. I thought we were really onto something. I thought I was really onto something with these ideas that I had.

I am in that position where I finish something, it goes out, and I'm onto the next thing. I finish it, it goes out, onto the next thing.

It's much easier to get your material out to the public now than it was in 1988, when you basically had to get onto cable to have a joke heard across the country. Now all you need is an iPhone, and you can get your joke heard across the country.

We've all had relationships; I've had them in my past, and I don't look back on them and think, 'Ah, that was a mistake.' I take what I learnt and move onto the next one.

I just control what I can control. Getting better every time I step onto the floor.

One cannot afford to be nostalgic about the past and cling onto it.

Ever up and onward.

To join in the industrial revolution, you needed to open a factory; in the Internet revolution, you need to open a laptop.

Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

So much European cinema has open arms to stories carried by women in their 40s, 50s, and 60s. And America is a little behind in that.

I grew up black in segregated America, where it was hard to find an open door. It's harder now for young blacks to find a closed one.

I'd like to be the person who changes things, or at least open doors for others.

If you play well, you can open doors.

Having challenges in your life open doors for you.

Fighting is just something that's gonna open doors for things to come in the future.

We don't all have to take the same coordinates to get to the same destination. Being a young African American female artist, I want to open doors for young black girls.

For me, it's all about keeping an open mind; if you are always learning then you are always improving.

I just have an open mind - that's the way I live my life, just crossing the bridge when I come to it.

I firmly believe that we must evaluate, explore and encourage new ideas with an open mind.

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.