You have to work everyday at being the best you can be. It's a project that is never-ending.
I appreciate the additional additives and preservatives that help sell a project, but I'm sticking to what works best for me. I gotta sell the album live on stage and make people believe in the songs.
I'm kind of getting more excited about developing my own stuff, or getting involved early in projects and doing my best to make things that I care about happen.
There's competition in every field, and that's healthy. It makes you work harder and be your best. Competition, not in terms of money or number of projects, but in the quality of your work, is very healthy.
I've had to learn and discipline myself that I'm much happier and much less depressed if I give myself a project. It's just that simple.
I'm just looking for a kind of project that will have a decent role and is something that I'll really enjoy doing. There are a lot more opportunities in television.
Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something - this side of it, if you like, doing interviews - is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the project.
Success in life is about project management. Determine deliverables, make milestones, and always pursue the critical path.
After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.
Google X is here to do moonshot-type projects. Not just shooting to the moon, but bringing the moon back to Earth.
Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people.
I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working.
If you don't have nerves and a little trepidation about any new project, then I don't think you're really alive.
But, I do think, on a very simplistic level, that we can project onto dogs because they are so innocent. They don't come with a lot of baggage.
The way 'Showgirls' was presented to me, it sounded like an interesting project, and it kind of just went off the rails as we were doing it.
You know how the Beatles broke off - they all did their solo projects and they came back together and they were even stronger!
Our goal is to leverage what is already out in the field in terms of partners, but then hire in project management capability and a bit of technical capability.
Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.
I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.
One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.
Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.
