Marjane Satrapi Quotes

I don't sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I'm a good 100-yard-dash guy.

I can focus on what seems to be the most boring things for days at a time.

I only think of my practice and running as fast as I can.

I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.

I started running outside when I was at 'Biggest Loser.' Then I got runner's knee, and thought I was never going to be able to shake it. When I overcame that and ran the L.A. Marathon, it was such an amazing thing, and now running is such a part of my routine.

When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting the movie out.

You really just have to love the process. I can't tell you the amount of film sets I've been on where people are talking about Oscars in the middle of the production. It happens all the time.

I have a short attention span. I couldn't stay doing the same thing for 30 years.

I work better when I'm juggling projects. Nothing worse than watching someone really embrace what they're doing if they love it too much.

I'm usually working on several things at once. If I get bored with one, I can go on to another. That way, I never get stuck.

The thing is I really struggle with commitments, so committing myself to six months to a year in a soap opera... I don't think it would suit my lifestyle. A few days working on a project is enough for me, and then I get bored and am ready to move on and do something else.

I don't have certain kinds of fatigue. My focus stays strong - I can work on a song for six or seven hours in one day and not get bored or tired of it.

My constant battle is putting aside time wasters, and I have to watch out for procrastination. Staying on the path of something you're trying to create has much to do with having confidence in yourself and in your capacity to realize the things you want out of life.

When we did 'Toy Story,' that was an all-hands-on-deck situation that really was time-intensive.

I have never been able to pay attention to anything for more than a few minutes - the stories in my head have always been so much more entertaining. Only books could pull me out of my own imagination, and then it was only to plunge me into someone else's.

Obviously, you want to score every game, but you just have to be patient.

I can get obsessive with my training, but it makes you who you are.

I can do anything for 25 minutes.

A lot of the guys worry about their form. For me, it is just about being persistent and patient.

Some people like the same thing forever, but I don't know. We kind of, like, listen to loads of different stuff, and our attention spans aren't good enough. So there was a bit of frustration when you're, like, having to play the same thing all the time because we play all, like, loads of different instruments.

Entrepreneurship is a muscle, and winning is an endurance game.

I like to work hard and complete my films one after the other.

We gotta show up and pay attention to details, embracing the process of hard work, and developing our bodies and minds to get ready for the season.

It's hard to keep training at your best, but I made sure I did for when the time came, or when I did get opportunities like at Palace.

If I'm connected to an idea, it just doesn't let me go. All I have to do is catch up to the image in my head by doing the practical steps to get there.