To solve big problems you have to be willing to do unpopular things.
If you are going to solve America’s problem, you have to go against your best political judgment.
I don't think I made any really big mistakes; it's just that I chose something difficult to do. Looking back, I suppose I should be grateful that I got as far as I got.
I know what we do is right but right doesn't always mean easy.
Decisions are never easy. If they were easy, they wouldn't be called decisions.
My godfather was a Chicago policeman, and I've always looked at law enforcement as a challenging and interesting job. There are so many decisions that law enforcement officers have to make, and the incident or situation changes so much from moment to moment and day to day. I have a lot of respect for officers and what they go through.
Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.
It is difficult to constantly make courageous choices.
Precisely that, covering 500 years of African-American history in six hours. I've been working on this for seven years. The biggest challenge was deciding which stories to tell.
I love my brother, I love my dad, actually love my mother as well, hope that's ok. And I admire their service to the nation and the difficult decisions they had to make.
You want someone who will challenge you back; sometimes, that's the way the best decisions get made.
I want to tell you ladies and gentlemen, the actions that we took were not always easy. The actions that we took were not always popular. But when you get yourself in public office, you must lead, you must do what's necessary.
To me, if you see a play that's just a bad play, it's just a missed call, I think, as a coach, you should be able to challenge that.
Each member of the team must feel important - everyone must make my life and choices difficult.
I could stay making nice safe BBC movies for the rest of my life, so I decided to risk it. It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.
The choices that make a significant difference in our lives are the tough ones. They're not often fun or easy, but they're the ones we have to make, and each is a deliberate step toward better understanding who we really are.
