Disappointing Outcome Quotes

In life, sometimes you just lose.

They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed.

We have to stick to basics. Sometimes, you expect that miracles will happen, but it does not work out that way.

Failure affects me hard.

It's not a happy time when a film drops dead on your doorstep.

I've been nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes, but I've never won one and I probably never will.

It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank.

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.

When I came back I had to realize that IC was not in a very good shape - all the much money that we had because of the huge Ideal success, was gone. I was very upset.

In the real world, it doesn't always go your way like it can on a television show.

Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad.

It's heartbreaking to see theater people be forced to accept the business side of show business.

'New Moon' was such a serious, depressing movie that people felt we had lost a little humor of the books.

I'm 47 years old, and I have to accept the fact that I'm probably not going to set the world on fire... If I was going to do that, I would have done it by now.

I mean it shouldn't hang you up emotionally if your record fails.

Obama won the presidency on the strength of his message and the skills of the messenger. Now the talk of hope and change feels out of tune when so many Americans are out of work, over-mortgaged, and worried that life will be even tougher for their children.

I've been involved in some movies that I really thought were going to take off that didn't. And then I've thought, 'This movie's not going anywhere,' and it worked. The same thing with television shows.

Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.

Well, I don't ever get excited. I haven't been excited since I got a Chopper bicycle when I was about 12. Once you get older you realise there's always a catch to everything. So when I get, say, a commission to make a TV show, the catch is that you have to deliver something and then the sense of responsibility overwhelms the joy of the occasion.

'One Part Lullaby.' It was our big major-label record. People reference it quite a bit, but it did absolutely nothing. It's like the 'Kids' soundtrack. It did nothing. It didn't start anything for me.

If a film does not do well, there is a certain period when you do feel low. It affects you because you put in a lot of effort.

I've lost a lot. I'm tired of it. It's not fun.

For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.

My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn't make a living, he couldn't support himself. He worked all the time and he didn't make enough money to have a house, have an apartment.