I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.
We are drawn to artists who tell us that art is difficult to do and takes a spiritual effort, because we are still puritan enough to respect a strenuous spiritual effort.
How do you live with yourself, Lord Arrogant?” “Very easily, Lady Difficult. I find myself quite charming.
The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn't imagine when it would end. [Puberty]
Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.
Although this may be a most difficult thing, if one will do it, it can be done. There is nothing that one should suppose cannot be done.
Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
Living your life is a task so difficult it has never been attempted before.
Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.
To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty
To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year. "The Distant Music of the Hounds," 1954
Maintain the name you build. It is easier to make a good brand than to maintain a good brand already made. Wining a trophy is not as difficult as defending it.
Getting started is the most difficult thing to do; once you file it out, they rest of the journey is as soft as the straw. Be a good beginner.
Having not said anything the first time, it was somehow even more difficult to broach the subject the second time around.
It's far more difficult to disfigure a great work of art than to create one.
The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child’s heart is worth.
Do you think you could stop crying for a minute? It makes conversation a bit difficult.
If we're told that human ain't the highest among creatures, then it'd be difficult to raise human dignity into current level.
It’s difficult to turn from the promise of retribution. Even if it’s the barest promise.
