Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Challenges Quotes
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.
ChallengesDiversityGender EqualityRepresentationSocial Issues How hard is it to get female panellists?
ArtChallengesCreativityPatiencePerseverance Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
ChallengesFocusOvercoming ObstaclesPerseveranceResilience It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
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.
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.
ChallengesContent FinancingEconomicsEntertainment IndustryHollywood Content financing is a difficult beast no matter what era of Hollywood we're talking about.
BureaucracyChallengesLeadershipMilitary EfficiencyOrganization Paperwork will ruin any military force.
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!
ChallengesClimateIdentityPerspectiveSociety The truth is, I'm someone coming from a spoiled society - the worst thing we deal with in Canada is winter.
ChallengesConnectionLoveRelationshipsRomance I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.
AspirationChallengesExperienceMusic FestivalsMusic Industry Rolling Loud, I wanna do that. I went to Rolling Loud one time with Durk, I couldn't even get in. We ain't have enough passes. I wasn't even rappin'.
ChallengesGratitudeGrowthPerspectiveResilience I was not so lucky to grow up with toys as I grew up in a remote area of Kenya.
AuthenticityChallengesExperienceGrowthPerception It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've been in jets and town cars for three years.
BiasChallengesPerceptionPsychologySelf-awareness I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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.
AdventureChallengesCourageLife ExperiencePerseverance The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life.
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.
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.
ChallengesEducationKnowledgeLife PerspectiveSociety Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
