Quotes about "Contemporary Issues"

I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough, that I was always going to be a quirky sidekick. And he was an ogre of a man. He should have been carrying a torch. If he was in a bar, he couldn't have come near me, and then he was deciding my fate. ”

Intellectual work is essentially a lonely process, and if you can find a way of doing something so that you're in company without being disturbed, that, for me, is the critical thing. I often get to feel isolated so often if I'm sitting either where there aren't people or isn't a view. ”

People are leaving trails everywhere they go; automated web crawlers tell you an awful lot about their social activities. The flow of information in fundamentally unobtrusive ways into social control organisations has risen dramatically. ”

My whole career, only one person has stepped up to back me. All these people say they like your films. They say this and they say that, but no one actually does anything. ”

I love making cheap films. I really do. What I've found is that I work better when it's both a fairly low budget and a short schedule. It focuses the mind, and it's a better atmosphere. ”

Coming out of university, one of my obsessions was that in the novels I was reading, they seemed to be portraying a world that had a social fabric. People knew each other in 'War and Peace.' They went to all the same balls. These were societies with tightly wound, woven, social textures. ”

I come out of repertory theatre so I've been working under pressure my whole career. ”

When I left for Qatar, I knew, of course, that this could have an impact on my career as an international. ”

I always found new challenges in my career. ”

I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever. ”