Justin Cartwright Quotes

My background is inseparable from my work.

I'm more American than anything else. I grew up in China, but I was fulfilled at a young age by American music. It was my biggest inspiration.

My values are in my DNA and were shaped by my environment.

I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists or writers or journalists or filmmakers, is a projection of where we were born, what's been withheld or lavished upon us, our color, our sex, our class. And everything we do in life to some degree is a reflection of that context.

You don't make a decision about being a writer. There was a point, aged 21, when it became clear that this is who I am. The choice is how good you are going to be at it and how hard you are going to work.

When I started working, I just had my name be 'Bryce Dallas.'

I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.

I've always thought of myself as a cattle-handling specialist, a college professor first; autism is secondary.

Definitely working on 'Deal or No Deal' was a learning experience, and it helped me to understand what I would rather be doing.

I love that my dad has stopped asking me when I'm going to get a real job.

When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might like to go into book publishing.

But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer.

I don't think the people wanna see me play Clyde Johnson the architect.

I'm not perfect. This is how I was raised. If I wasn't in the industry, I'd be the same person.

I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.

Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.

I think great writers should write great shows, and I have trouble with, like, what you are in life shouldn't automatically make you what you do in your art. It doesn't necessarily translate.

People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit. I trained to be a chartered accountant, which I didn't much enjoy, and it was only slowly that the idea of becoming a creative writer gelled.

My experiences growing up in both a Chinese American household and the Catholic Church define much of who I am.

If I hadn't gone to Stanford, I'd be working at P&G now.

When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.

No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.

If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.

I think character is very much a product of where you live, who you are, what is happening in that time of your life, and I'm interested in those pressures, those forces. A political context, a social context, really determines if not who people are then how they treat one another and what they say, how they speak.

The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be.