Brenda Brathwaite Quotes

I used to work at HAL, where I made 'Kirby' and 'Smash Bros.' After that, I became an independent designer, but I didn't have my own team.

I am very proud of Jim Leiken. He has worked with me for six years and has been patient enough to learn the ropes. He's now matured into a true chef and is working on building his team.

People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.

I feel like I ask people who have been in the industry for a while a lot of questions.

I went to work with George Miller on game stuff, but to also learn every possible thing I could from somebody I admire so much.

I definitely feel a difference about my place in the industry. I feel like I have some longevity now.

Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.

I would love to make video games.

No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that.

David Moyes was one who, at a certain crossroads in my career, he was there. And since then, I've kicked on. That's why he played such a big role in my career.

When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning their chops.

I was the lead designer on 'Portal,' and I really enjoyed making that type of game.

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games - nothing like saving the world.

Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film.

I started freelancing for the Associated Press. I had a great mentor there who sort of taught me everything.

I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn - be it chiming in with constructive criticism or giving me sound advice about my career plan.

We're talking about people who've already got 3-4, if not 5-6 years' experience or more, and it's about trying to help professionals develop, using us as a resource for that development.

England is the country where I learned my profession. They are the ones that trained me, they are the ones that believed in me.

The best part of fashion is the interns - having them or being one.

I just worked with Sofia Coppola and that was amazing. I learned so much from her. I can't even describe how much fun I had.

At the Centers for Disease Control, I rose up fairly quickly into management positions. The first team I led there included many people who had been my supervisors in previous roles or were more senior than I was. So it was kind of a daunting challenge.

Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.

The venture business is a bit of an apprenticeship business, so the firm I worked for didn't let me make an investment until I was 30. That was probably a very smart thing.

If you look at the pipeline of women moving up through the organisation, it's a matter of time and experience that they develop and performance that allows them to move into senior levels.

I've gotten to be part of a lot of incredible tours and have learned so much from the people I've had the opportunity to open for.