“It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work.” PeopleIfsNeedsYearsImportantWholeMy OwnProjectsSpending Author:Mary McDonnell
“When I'm playing with the band or playing with some projects or some of my own stuff it's about the musical approach. That would be the more turntablist approach to things of where it's strictly about music.” Would BeStuffMy OwnBandProjectsApproachMusical Author:Kid Koala
“So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I had met every head of studio, every executive and a lot of producers. I started finding things, little crumbs off other people's tables that I would make my own.” PeopleLittlesWantedTurnsMy OwnMetsFindingsProjectsTablesStudiosProducersDevelopingExecutivesCrumbsBread Crumbs Author:Rupert Sanders
“I am not opposed to doing a side project, like Death Cab for Cutie, where it's completely different from my own band.” DifferentSidesMy OwnBandProjectsCab Author:Ryan Tedder
“I am very active on the Internet. In 2007, I made one film every day and posted it on my website. That was a 365-day project, really exhausting, but I still put a lot of stuff on - from life, friends, my own life.” MadeStillsFilmStuffMy OwnInternetProjectsActiveWebsiteMy Own LifeExhausting Author:Jonas Mekas
“Sometimes all that saves me is being willing to make mistakes. There are projects that strike me as so beautiful, important, complicated, or just plain big, that they convince me of my own inadequacy. This awful state of reverence leads to paralyzing brain freeze. At times like that the only way out is for me to decide, 'To hell with it. I can't do it right, so I'll do it wrong. I can't do it well, but I can do it badly.' Sometimes, with luck, while I'm sweating to do it wrong, I stumble on a right way.” WayWellsI CanImportantSometimesStatesBigsBeautifulCan DoMy OwnMistakeBrainHellWillingProjectsLuckComplicatedStrikesAwfulConvinceMaking MistakesReverenceRight WayFreezeI Can Do ItSave MeInadequacySweating Author:Katherine Dunn
“I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good to be holding the helm; no matter how strong my hands, the sudden and numerous waves were stronger still, and I was wise enough to yield to them rather than resist them obstinately and make the ship founder. Thus I never was truly my own master but was always ruled by circumstances.” MayLittlesStillsMatterEnoughHandsStrongMy OwnWiseMastersCircumstancesProjectsArmyStrongerWaveShipsYieldFoundersHelm Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“I wanna produce, write, and direct my own projects, and eventually fund them. I wanna be a mogul.” WritingMy OwnProduceProjectsDirectFundMoguls Author:Kevin Hart
“My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.” PeopleWritingFirstsSometimesStuffMy OwnLove IsProjectsFirst Love Author:Missy Elliot
“As part of Depeche Mode, I don't think it's right for me to be using my own songs for a solo project. I'm not a very prolific songwriter, so I keep those for Depeche Mode.” ThinkingSongMy OwnProjectsSongwritersSoloDepeche Mode Author:Martin Gore
“To be a film director is not a democracy, it's really a tyranny. You're the head of the project, for better rather than worse. I write the film and I direct the film, I decide who's going to be in it, I decide on the editing, I put in the music from my own record collection.” WritingFilmMy OwnDemocracyRecordsDirectorsProjectsDirectTyrannyCollectionsEditingFilm Directors Author:Woody Allen
“Sometimes, being a feminist artist, there are times where I'm in a position where I just want to feel like I'm saying all the right things politically, or I feel like I have to mention my own project over other people's projects.” PeopleWantFeelsSometimesArtistMy OwnPositionProjectsFeministRight Thing Author:Kathleen Hanna
“The problem I've always discovered in my own work when this kind of thing happens when you hit the wall is there's almost always a reason. You've almost always made a mistake in the initial conception of the project. You misapprehended something or you thought something would work and now you're three quarters on the way through and you see that it doesn't work.” WayKindMadeReasonProblemHappensThreeMy OwnMistakeWallProjectsThings HappenConceptionQuartersInitialsMade A Mistake Author:Steven Pressfield
“When I was younger, I didn’t know that I should just listen to my own voice, my own artistic sense of things when I was choosing projects, because one of the biggest creative decisions that an actor can make in the film business is what you will work on.” KnowsShouldFilmActorsVoiceMy OwnDecisionCreativeProjectsArtisticJust Listen Author:James Franco
“Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.” PastMy OwnProduceProjectsDirectEntrepreneurGuaranteesI Have LearnedFuture SuccessPast Success Author:Ian Ziering
“I'm really passionate about the song Sky Spills Over. It was fun creating it in the studio and I've been overwhelmed at the response it gets when we perform it live every night. My son Ryan is a really talented filmmaker so I always enjoy working with him on a project. But what made this project even more special was that 3 of my own grandkids were in the video. This video was a lot of fun to make. I hope people enjoy it!” PeopleMadeNightSongFunEnjoyMy OwnSkySpecialSonProjectsCreatingResponsePassionateStudiosVideoFilmmakerOver ItMy SonEvery NightOverwhelmedSpillsGrandkids Author:Michael W. Smith
“The most common reason that I turn down a film project is because of my schedule. If I can't devote the time to a score that it deserves, I'll pass. I'll also turn down a film if its moral position is different than what my own understanding of right and wrong.” IfsI CanDifferentReasonFilmTurnsUnderstandingMy OwnCommonMoralPositionProjectsDeserveScoreSchedules Author:John Keltonic
“I tried [being a mogul]. It bores me. I don't really want to produce other people's movies. Because they're either grown-up filmmakers like Steven Soderbergh or Kathryn Bigelow that didn't really need me - and I've produced both of them. It's fun to sit around with them and be collegial, but they don't need me. They can make the film without me. I make my own stuff. There are tons and tons of other things I'm interested in that have nothing to do with movies or are documentary projects.” PeopleWantNeedsFilmFunStuffMy OwnProduceProjectsFilmmakerBoresDocumentariesMoguls Author:James Cameron
“As I matured, I've always had the dream of one day either having my own clothing line or owning a fashion magazine. Most of my thesis' and projects in school were fashion and advertising based.” DreamSchoolLinesMy OwnFashionOne DayProjectsAdvertisingMagazinesClothingsThesisMaturedFashion MagazinesClothing Line Author:Ashley Purdy
“From the first days of my career as an entrepreneur, I have always used my own and my team's lack of experience to our advantage. In fact, at our first venture, Student magazine, we used our newcomer status to secure great interviews and generate publicity - people were excited about our new project and wanted to get involved. Our inexperience fed our restless enthusiasm for trying new things, which became part of our core mission.” PeopleTryingFirstsFactsWantedUsedMy OwnCareersTeamStudentsInvolvedProjectsAdvantageEntrepreneurExcitedMissionsCoreMagazinesEnthusiasmSecureInterviewsFedsNew ThingsVentureRestlessGet InvolvedPublicityInexperienceTrying New ThingsNew ProjectsNewcomers Author:Richard Branson
“I had done 'Die Hard' and it was somebody's franchise. I actually just got done with the 'Hawaii Five-O' pilot and I was developing some things of my own. So 'Total Recall' one of those projects that I read wanting more not to like it.” HardDoneDiesMy OwnFiveProjectsDevelopingPilotsRecallsHawaiiWanting MoreTotal Recall Author:Len Wiseman
“I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.” ThinkingCharacterMy OwnNovelProjectsMy Own Life Book:Conversations with Paul Auster Source: Conversations with Paul Auster
“When I got the opportunity to do the new wing [the Schauhaus] for the German Historical Museum, for instance, I didn't see it as an opportunity for my own ego, to do something so exciting that every architectural publication would want to put it on the cover. I accepted it because I knew it was going to be a very difficult project, and I wasn't sure I could do something exciting there.” WantOpportunityDifficultMy OwnEgoProjectsExcitingWingsHistoricalAcceptedInstanceMuseumsPublication Author:I. M. Pei
“I'm not a home-studio guy. I spend a lot of time working by myself developing songs, but I really need some other counterpart to help me pull it all together, because you go nuts working if I had to finish an entire project all within my own head.” IfsNeedsHelpingHomeTogetherGuySongMy OwnProjectsStudiosDevelopingHelp MeNutsCounterparts Author:Andrew Bird
“I'm trying to avoid any more asshole roles, at least for a little bit. The main criteria for me when choosing a project is a good director. I just want to work with these guys that I admire because I do want to direct my own films one day, and I want to pick their brains to see what their process is like, and see what I can take from that.” WantTryingLittlesI CanFilmGuyBitsProcessMy OwnBrainRolesOne DayDirectorsProjectsLittle BitPicksDirectAdmireCriteriaGood Directors Author:Dave Franco
“I definitely want to start my own production company at some point. I'm actually teaming up with Funny or Die to put together a TV show right now, that I can't really talk about because it's still in the very preliminary stages, but if it pans out this will be the first project under my production company, which I have yet to name.” IfsWantFirstsStillsI CanShowsTogetherDiesNamesMy OwnCompanyStageTvsRight NowProjectsProductionsTv ShowsFunny Or DieTeaming Up Author:Dave Franco
“I think when someone blindly projects and it's showing up in the form of envy or hate - and I actually think they're synonymous - that's when I feel the most afraid and disconnected and vulnerable. Like whenever I don't feel safe in my own hands, in terms of my not being tender or merciful with myself, or when we're treating each other that way.” ThinkingWayFeelsHandsFormHateTermMy OwnSafeProjectsEnvyVulnerableMercifulShowing UpDisconnected Author:Alanis Morissette
“Even though I take care of the mom stuff, I've maintained my own individuality with my own projects, and I think our girls see that I'm not just the mom or the wife.” ThinkingCareGirlStuffMy OwnWifeMomProjectsIndividualityTake CareMy Girl Author:Gabrielle Reece