I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.
You don't do an experimental film to become rich, so the people who are involved are involved because they enjoy the creative aspect of it.
The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.
There are lots of wonderful actors doing animated films these days, but I prefer it when you can't recognise them - it means they've really become the character.
I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
A good editor can make a respectable writer remarkable, just like a good parent helps a child become amazing.
I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.
You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.
Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.
Romania can be a linchpin in delivering gas to its neighbors and even become an energy exporter for its neighbors across Central and Eastern Europe.
The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like.
The problem is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is a temporary halting until they are again in working order.
A new state, if it wants to join the European Union, has to apply to become a member of the European Union like any state.
I think diversity can also be a resource, an asset, especially in a world that is becoming globalized, to deal with difference, to deal with variety, to deal with complexity.
