Lucy Liu Quotes

My back went out and I gained 40 pounds while sweating over 'Perestroika.' It was incredibly hard, the hardest thing I had to do before the screenplay to 'Lincoln.'

Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.

The process of making an independent film is like building a mini Eiffel Tower with popsicle sticks - it doesn't happen overnight, and it's not easy.

Making movies is a hard thing, and it's slow. So you can glorify the product, but the process is difficult no matter who you are.

People don't talk about how hard it is to make a movie. Nobody does. Ever.

Even when the business took a real nose-dive, you're thinking, 'OK, how are we gonna get out of this? What we gonna do? We can work harder.'

Movie-making ain't for sissies.

Rethinking product supply chains offers another opportunity for traditional enterprises to introduce a host of positive outcomes.

I've always had to work twice as hard as everybody, growing up.

In chatting to directors over the years, including James Wan, they always tell you the war stories. No one ever says, 'Oh, I had a great time on that film.' It's always this went wrong, that went wrong.

Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in.

Make movies you love because it's miserable. Every movie I've worked on at one point or another is exhausting, and you feel like you're making a bad movie.

Never give up and always keep fighting, because though times may be tough, the sacrifices do pay off, so just keep pushing towards your dream and just love it at the same time and enjoy it.

You can use the same motto for everything in life. If you put that effort in, you'll get what you want.

Everything bows to success, even grammar.

He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.

I have travelled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me tobe doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.... The twelve labors of Hercules were trifling in comparison with those which my neighbors have undertaken; for they were only twelve, and had an end; but I could never see that these men slew or captured any monster or finished any labor.

The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell.

I was never pegged to be the next great American tennis player by any means. I wasn't a prodigy. I'm a late bloomer. Whatever happens, I'm proud of what I've done.

Finally, there is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may be stubbed, than in aimlessly sliding down the path to failure. If a straight, honorable path has been chosen, the gaining of the summit yields lasting satisfaction. The morass of failure, if through laziness, indifference or other avoidable fault, yields nothing but ignominy and sorrow for self and family and friends.

All I can do is try to do the best work I can. I need to work, I like to work... although I complain about it, but I do like it - and I just need to make the best film I can.

Most people will not do the hard work it takes to make success easy. Don't be like most people.

Don't doubt, don't stop... The only 2 things that can stop you is to stop working and start doubting.

It's not going to be easy, it's going to be worth it.

If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong!