If you're from South London you feel like you're always trying to win people over, so perhaps that underdog passion comes through.
I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience.
I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a night at the theater.
I was very preppy in my childhood. I also went through an anti-clothing moment where I just wanted to wear sweats because I'd just moved to Canada. My mom was always trying to get me into proper clothes, but I never wanted to wear them, and now that's all I wear.
The best stories are universal stories that have been told for as long as humanity has existed it's just figuring out new ways to do it, with language, with structure. And so I'm always trying to do that.
Men are always trying to make the world better or worse while most women are content just to live in it.
It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
You're always trying to find new stuff and new inspiration. If you don't really push and you don't try something that feels exciting, then it's not worth doing.
The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.
I think you're just always trying to find really great, interesting female roles. That's the thing for me. You do have to think about what you're signing up for.
I never wanted to live a relatable life, I wanted to live an aspirational life. I didn't want to see people who had my life on TV. I wanted to see other lives, right, and so I was always trying to get as much of that stuff as I could.
In my personal and spiritual life, I reject that. I don't believe in that. I'm always trying to get my mind into a less judgmental place, making less rigid judgments about things like "perverse" versus "pure." But in terms of prose, those sorts of oppositions seem to work.
I have a lot of theories about the beneficial effects of fiction, but I'm always trying to get away from them a little bit.
I just passed on some a script that I was sent, because I said, "I haven't yet played the person staying home, the one that says, 'Good luck, honey,' or whatever." And so that's what I look for. Therefore, by virtue of that exclusion, I'm always trying to find roles that are challenging.
I'm always trying to make movies. It's what I love to do more than anything. I love to write and direct.
I'm always trying to look for how I can find human stories that aren't just dramas.
I don't [even] know the number of books on Abraham Lincoln. Ten thousand, twelve thousand? I have seen various numbers. It seems like every generation is always trying to come to terms with Lincoln.
I'm always trying to mentor young women. I speak on college campuses and I have events in my own studio where I open it up to women's groups to learn. I feel really strongly about it.
Hip-hop is always moving. It's always looking for the next style; it's always trying to one-up the last person.
I'm always trying to pop up in different genres, what interests me. Sometimes I just like to throw myself into new situations to see what it feel like.
I was always trying to do things to make school fun.
Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I'm always trying to write and rhyme. Music is just natural everyday occurrence with me.
I found myself in network always trying to play catch up because once things get going there's no time to fix this and that. And also the writing, it was more inclined to be by committee in network which drowns out the purity and the voice of the show.
As a director, you always want things to look good. You're always trying to make things look tidy. That's what we're all trained to do.
Every writer has his own voice. Other than that I'm always trying to do change-ups and publishers haven't always been happy about that.
