The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.
I'm humble 'cause I think many years ago people say, 'Well, Alibaba's terrible company'. And I know we were not that terrible. We're pretty good; we're better than people thought. But today, when people have a high expectation on you, and I start to worry and nervous because we are not good yet.
Compared to Clinton, I feel like a loser. I can't even get the intern to make me coffee!
There's loads of eyes and expectations. People are almost waiting for you to make a mistake so they can say, 'Oh, she's a one-hit wonder!'
Apple is a failure because they missed social? Nobody would say that, because they are having great success.
I know first-hand what it's like to be judged and to have someone criticise your creativity, your hard work and your art.
I was too embarrassed to tell anyone I wanted to make a movie because I thought it would be seen as a vanity project because I was a singer.
They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moore hadn't either. I think they never stopped trying to put me in the same category. That was the road they went down with me.
Gold was not sure of many things, but he was definite about one: for every successful person he knew, he could name at least two others of greater ability, better, and higher intelligence who, by comparison, had failed.
I tried. But not everybody thought so.
If I don't measure up as an American writer, at least leave me to my delusion.
The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art.
It's been so difficult to watch people criticize me and my intentions.
It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.
When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.
It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.
I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.
I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.
Some directors don't tell you that it's not your fault, so you get increasingly depressed that you're not delivering what's required, and then you discover it's not you at all, it's something in the background that's out of focus.
The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.
When you know part of the industry thinks of you as a one-hit wonder, that's painful.
I feel like 'Just.me' is not successful, but it is not a failure.
I was called fool's gold. That's what I was called in the draft combine. That's how I remember it. I took it personal.
In attempting to explain F For Fake's state-side failure, it has occurred to me that perhaps the subject matter was at least partially to blame, and that this country is so blissfully enslaved by the notion of the special sanctity of the expert that an overtly anti-expert film was bound to go too much against the national grain.
