Jenny Agutter Quotes

Ninety percent of the time, you're going to hear no. It took me seven years to make 'Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored.' Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made.

In Mexico, we call it 'terco': the guy who goes out every day, and every day they tell him no, and the next day he's there, and the next day he's there. That's the kind of people who make movies in Mexico.

When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.

All I'd ever wanted to do in my life was write and publish books, and woe to anyone who stood in my way.

I am not someone that is going to give up. I just don't do that.

Make the film that you love. When you find a film that you love, every molecule of your being will be moving in the direction of making the best film you can possibly make. This should be your default mode of operation.

The great lesson about filmmaking is never take "no" for an answer, especially if you have a lot of passion and inspiration to do something.

The only reason an indie gets made is because someone has a burning passion to do it and won't take no for an answer, as opposed to a big film, which is like a train that starts rolling down the tracks and nothing can stop it.

And remember how he wrote the first Rocky in a few days, and wouldn't sell the script even though he was starving, because they wanted to put somebody else in the lead role. To see what he's accomplished, dog, that's what it's all about.

My advice for other female directors: don't think of your gender as a handicap. Don't think about it at all. Just tell the best story you can, and don't stop until you do.

I like to think of myself as a very passionate person, and as very determined. So, if I set my mind on something, I definitely stop at no end to find within myself the power to keep going, whether that involves thinking of a new approach to a problem, or physically challenging myself.

Never give in or give up easily on a cause.

To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will.

As long as my heart's still in it, I'll keep going. If the passion's there, why stop?

You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough.

To strive tirelessly and at all times to reach one's goal - therein lies the secret of success.

Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.

People can do whatever they want if they just set their heart to it, and just never give up, and just go out there and do it.

I want you and it will be so, While I have life.

The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea

Entrepreneurs don't finish when we are tired. We finish when we are done.

The hardest thing, as a producer, is to find a director who does the picture for all the right reasons, and not just because they know it's successful or that they can do a good job, but in their bones, they love that genre.

No, I shall not give in. I shall go on. I shall work to the end.

These people get to the top because they have to, because inside them burns a dream too big, too ever present, too demanding to be denied.

You can accomplish anything with pure persistence and drive.