Jolene Purdy Quotes

When you're a director, you really live whatever you do.

Part of doing good work is caring deeply about it, believing in what you're doing, and getting incredibly attached to the characters that you're playing, the stories you're telling, and the people you're working with.

A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.

I don't want to sign four films at a time, as acting is an art, and art cannot be done without honesty.

I like to know that my actors or my performers are going into it with the same amount of passion that I have for the project. They're as dedicated to achieving as I am.

We have to make some movies we have passion for, respect for.

Cartooning is an artistic commitment that requires the full attention and passion of the artist on every level; one should not get into it if one expects to do anything more than produce a book or a story that is exactly as one wants it to be.

I get along great with directors, but I think some producers would tell you I'm a pain. They may say I'm tough to work with, but I have a great passion for what I do. I believe in fighting for it.

You want to love unconditionally everything you do, or don't do it.

My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in.

I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your dream.

It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.

I go into meetings with some film-makers and they literally have nothing to say, they're almost bored by their own material. I'd rather work with people who are very passionate and very animated about what they want to do. People who just want to tell stories.

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

Actors will say 'yes' to anything.

I'm a guy that wants the movie to work. So whatever it takes or whatever you got to do - I'm happy to do.

I give each book however long it needs to be the best I can make it.

You have to make films you feel strongly about. And then hope you can find the audience.

Watching John Lasseter's films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what he's doing, is going straight ahead with his vision and working really hard to get that vision into film form. And I feel that my understanding this of him is my friendship towards him.

Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.

The films I want to make, I really want to be passionate about.

Directing is a very long process, and I have to be in love with it if I want to give up two years of my life and live with it from beginning to end!

'The Waterdance' was made for all the right reasons. Everybody that was involved in the film gave it their all.

I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I've always given everything to it. That's kind of how I approach life. I can't help it. There's no part-way with me on anything in any area of my life.

We put everything we had into this record, just like we do with every other record that we make.