Quotes About Failure

I'm willing to fail, my producers are willing to fail, my crew is willing to fail.

Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.

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.

You can spend all the money in the world. If you've got a bad product, it doesn't matter.

Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American or European elections. They don't make donations to political parties or hire lobbyists in D.C., London or Canberra.

If I'm not moved by what happens at the end of this play, then I've completely failed, and so has the play, and so has our production. And if that's the case then there really isn't any reason to want to do it.

The production must be faithful to the line. If the production fails, my work fails.

A long and productive career in the world of films is bound to be checkered with success and failures. You cannot have one without the other; the only way not to make a flop is not to make a film.

We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.

I still make mistakes today - I always explain to people, when you will make as many mistakes as I did, then you will know as much as I know in my profession.

Sometimes you just don't show up, and in our profession, it's a bad day.

Football doesn't do sentiment well; it's a cruel profession.

There's no checklist of how democracies fail because they fail in different ways. Some of them fail because they break up and civil war breaks out... Often they fail because someone is elected to power who doesn't respect the rules of the democracy.

Writing a comedy script is a difficult thing. I think if someone is attempting a comedy and then they fail then it's understood.

You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?

There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.

'The Room' came out in 2003, really to crickets. Nobody showed up to see it. It made $1800 at the box office. Everyone assumed it was going to disappear.

No one sets out to make a bad movie or disappoint anybody.

I hate to disappoint.

If you don't score, and you have chances, you are disappointed.

I'm disappointed anytime I don't play well.

I hate disappointing people and letting people down.

It's disappointing when you put in hard work in a film and it doesn't work.

It is always disappointing to obviously concede.