Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Challenges Quotes
AdventureChallengesCourageLife ExperiencePerseverance The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.
BiasChallengesPerceptionPsychologySelf-awareness I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
ChallengesCreativityGrowthPerseveranceSelf-awareness I'm a very slow screenwriter. It takes time for me to write a screenplay. Also, I feel it's not my strength.
CautionChallengesExperiencePublishingTrust In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.
ChallengesDiversityGender EqualityRepresentationSocial Issues How hard is it to get female panellists?
ChallengesContent FinancingEconomicsEntertainment IndustryHollywood Content financing is a difficult beast no matter what era of Hollywood we're talking about.
ChallengesCreativityInnovationPersistenceRisk Taking Trying to make a movie like 'Warcraft,' and trying to do it in a unique way... you get killed by a death of 1,000 cuts.
ArtChallengesCreativityPatiencePerseverance Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
ChallengesCourageDreamsPerseveranceSupport It's not easy to leave your hometown and your family and your support system and come out to Los Angeles to - to pursue a dream where the odds are not in your favor.
ChallengesFocusOvercoming ObstaclesPerseveranceResilience It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
ChallengesEducationKnowledgeLife PerspectiveSociety Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
AmbitionChallengesDreamsPatienceUncertainty A longstanding dream of mine is to adapt 'Dune,' but it's a long process to get the rights, and I don't think I will succeed.
BalanceChallengesLifePerseveranceWisdom Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.
ChallengesEqualityHopeProgressSocial Change We've come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.
ChallengesChangeGrowthPersistenceResilience Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It's not like you get to a point where you're all right for the rest of your life.
ChallengesCreativityEmotional ConflictRelationships It was a strange experience, making a love story and not getting along with your co-star in any way.
ChallengesGratitudeGrowthPerspectiveResilience I was not so lucky to grow up with toys as I grew up in a remote area of Kenya.
ChallengesMemoryMotivationNostalgiaPersistence When I was a kid, I used to play a game called 'Grand Prix Two.' Interlagos was always the first race of the season on that, and I never really got much past the second race. I would always restart the season, so I always seemed to be doing Interlagos - it was a real pain!
ChallengesConnectionLoveRelationshipsRomance I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.
BureaucracyChallengesLeadershipMilitary EfficiencyOrganization Paperwork will ruin any military force.
ChallengesClimateIdentityPerspectiveSociety The truth is, I'm someone coming from a spoiled society - the worst thing we deal with in Canada is winter.