Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you're a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you're trying to get a film financed.
I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.
I remember bumming rides across town to Georgia Tech, trying to get myself registered, trying to apply for financial aid, trying to get their coaches to watch my film.
There's only so much you can do of trying, finding yourself very close to getting a part and then not getting it.
There's a difference in being opinionated and judgmental; I'm still trying to figure out what that fine line is - I think we are all.
The reason why I'm not a pop star is I would have hated it. I'll stick to being an artist. I'm not trying not to be commercial; I am just doing what I do. I have finely tuned tastes, and that gets prioritized above everything else. That's just how it is.
When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them.
I wanted to get really fit. I wanted to lose some weight. So I've been doing Pilates and yoga, trying to lean out my body so I won't be bulky.
I think it's a long-time process when you are trying to get fitter and fitter.
Chip is like that kid, like the five-year-old kid that's trying to make his mom breakfast, and there's milk everywhere.
Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat out denial of the gospel of grace.
I've always shopped on the sale rack, and I've always been the girl flipping through the hangers trying to find the best deal.
I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I write.
I really wished I'd learned Spanish. I took it all in high school and was planning on trying to be fluent in it. I would get Selena tracks and sing with them and stuff like that.
How clear can I put this? I am not denying female oppression; I am trying to stop it by calling for a more fluid masculinity.
I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.
I'm working a lot. Keeping my head down and focusing and trying to take advantage of the opportunities that have come my way.
'Playboy' was not a sex magazine as far as I was concerned. Sex was simply part of the total package; I was trying to bring sex into the fold of a healthy lifestyle.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Dirty Projectors has always been a band that's been card-carrying modernists in terms of pushing different kinds of abstraction to the fore and trying to take them to the center of the culture or something like that.
