Brian Helgeland Quotes

If the film is a hit, people talk about the hard work, but if it fails, they may not notice, but I give my best for all films.

It takes years to establish yourself, and then you have one big film and everyone calls you an overnight success. You think, 'Christ, I've been sweating and crying for seven years.'.

In show business, it takes 10 years to create an overnight success. You've heard that, right? But what you don't hear is that that's the exact same amount of time it takes to create a bitter failure.

Perseverance has kept me going over the years. Things rarely happen overnight. Filmmakers should be prepared for many years of hard work. The sheer toil can be healthy and exhilarating.

I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.

I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.

Without failure there is no achievement.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares... if you don't really work them.

Sometimes you're gonna write a song and it's not gonna be right from the beginning. And you're just gonna have to work through that wall. But if you know something is there, you've gotta just keep doing it until you get it right. So, I'll work on a song for three months if I have to, to get it right.

It feels bad when a film doesn't work; everyone puts in a lot of effort to make a movie. The positive side to failure - they make me work harder.

Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.

Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. Be thorough in all things, no matter how small or distasteful! The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.

Starting out with music, I was very successful, and me getting into film, I definitely look forward to giving it my all. What you put in is what you get out.

It's really cool when the thing you are working on as a small team gets embraced by millions, but in the end, it's about your character and the script and your director and the rest of the cast and crew.

There is no royal flower strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for whatever success I have attained has been the result of much hard work and many sleepless nights.

I've decided that whether I succeed or fail, I have to give it 100 per cent. That way, at least I know I tried.

A lot of hard work goes into making a film.

Plan B is a plan to fail. You should always give 110% to what you plan to do for plan A.

I think the movie industry is a hard industry, but it is not that hard to be allowed to do what you want if you work hard.