You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.
I think people think filmmaking is fun, but I've never thought that. For me it's always been a lot of work and pain and stress.
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
Most films I work on, the people making the film are constantly second-guessing the executives of the studio, the producer, and the audience. It is very hard to accomplish anything in that situation.
Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people like me work?
I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.
I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.
The reality for us in America is that we will never get out of debt with more than 15 million people out of work.
It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?
The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models.
People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don't like in others.
People think that I don't work, and I fly around in Oprah's private plane doing whatever I want.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I've been involved with are pieces of work that I'm proud of, so I'm very happy for people to focus on them.
Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
You are going to make choices and decisions that sometimes aren't going to always work in your favor and they are going to upset some other people.
Fortunately and unfortunately, people don't see me as a character actor. They see me as a leading man or nothing, which makes it really hard to get work.
The work my mum does, a lot of it is re-housing homeless people, that's a real job. I play make-believe and dressing up for a living!
We work very hard in all of the Pixar films to not make anything in the imagery that causes people to think of something other than the story.
You need to be able to work with people. Especially in football, it is not a QB's game... even though the media likes to make it into that - it takes the whole team.
