Neil Burger Quotes

You just want to make something that's awesome and that people dig, and I'm excited about it.

Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.

When people think of me initially, they remember me as 'Akeelah.' Sometimes it can be frustrating to be remembered at an age that you've outgrown.

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

The three of us just try put our heads down and stay creative. The awards truly are just cake. It's one of those things that you never expect, but getting the head nod from either the fans or your peers, that's the ultimate compliment.

The thing that frustrated me is that some people think success is all measured by money.

I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that he knows, that is what destroys creation. That is what makes school.

You keep your head down and you work and work, and all of a sudden you pick your head up and people are receiving it the same way we're sending it. They're thinking the same things that I'm thinking about the show.

What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.

When you're in the eye of the hurricane, you're making the show - you just want the show to be good, you want it to be appreciated and those types of things.

Usually it seems like either you sacrifice something and a lot of people will pay attention, or you stay true to yourself and appeal to a smaller group of people, but now we've managed to do what we felt was the right thing to do in our heart and had it reach a wide audience. It feels very rare.

My advice to young people in the wrestling business would be to repeat such questions to yourself as: "How am I standing out? How am I getting recognized? How am I getting over?" And if you don't have definitive answers for doing those things, you are doing it wrong. It is, essentially, on them. There is no right way to do it, and that's one of the great things about this business because you can be creative. People who say they have it figured out are wrong.

People Expect Something New From Me All The Time.And That's Good It Keeps Me On The Edge

He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.

If you're different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more.

People will know you for whatever they want to know you for.

Don’t make stuff because you want to make money - it will never make you enough money. And don’t make stuff because you want to get famous - because you will never feel famous enough. Make gifts for people - and work hard on making those gifts in the hope that those people will notice and like the gifts.

Seven million people I turned on, and only one hundred thousand have come by to thank me.

Success causes us to be more praised than known.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.

I think the artistry is in having an insight into what one sees around them. Generally putting things together in a way no one else has before and finding a way to express that to other people who don't have that insight.

People tend to lock into one thing that you do that they consider to be better than the last one.

I'm tired of people not treating me like the gift that I am.

Do something you love and people will love you for it.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.