I wanted to do a film for a while, but I never found a script that I felt I was going to be the right person for; because if you've never made a film, you're not taught how to make a film, and you feel like you lack skills.
The cards are stacked (quite properly, I imagine) against all professional aesthetes, and no doubt we all deserve the dark, wordy, academic deaths we all sooner or later die.
Definitely, it's hard being a young artist and being taken seriously.
People who haven't done commercials, don't appreciate how hard it is.
Every time I make a movie I have too many characters and too many locations.
I would rather do three or four small parts every year as opposed to some of the lower-hanging fruit that might get my name above the title.
When it comes to remaking my own films in the English language, I can only imagine that it is a very boring process, I wouldn't ever dream of it.
Filming takes a lot out of you. It really does. It's immensely demanding, and you have to put the rest of your life in the icebox until you do your final shot.
The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.
It's not easy putting creative projects together. In my case, it might take a long time and you try to do the best.
The transition from fan to performer to recording artist, for me, was like learning how to dive... and each board got higher and higher.
Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.
Trying to make a movie like 'Warcraft,' and trying to do it in a unique way... you get killed by a death of 1,000 cuts.
'Blood Money' was a stand-alone film, but we worked double for it. We realised how difficult it is to sensitise people to anything new, especially when you don't have a star.
Probably more than any other movie we've made here at Pixar, 'Up' was the one we were the most nervous about.
Having made other shows, the thing with 'Doctor Who' is that you're doing everything, all at once.
I never claimed to be a low-maintenance gal, but when I'm writing, it's particularly challenging. I lose things constantly: my watch, my glasses, my papers, my mind.
It's actually much harder to develop a TV show than I had anticipated.
I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt.
I wanted to design a line based on Hollywood's Golden Era. I talked with Stephen Burrows and with Willi Smith and with one or two other people, but it just seems like such a hard field to break into. I need someone like Calvin Klein's manager to get behind me!
As for my slowness as a writer - that's been a struggle, no question. We live in a culture that values and rewards machine-speed productivity. Even the arts are expected to conform to the Taylor model of productivity.
'Boxers' was more time consuming simply because it was longer, but 'Saints' was definitely harder. I think it's just hard to talk about faith in general.
Things have a tendency in the film business to fall apart more often than they come together.
Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.
Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
