Industry Hurdles Quotes

I know that's a vague answer, but you just have to really pedal yourself around town and attempt to not get too discouraged. There is also a different kind of challenge for women, as they graduate into their 30s. It's hard. There isn't as much work. You're suddenly the aunt, or something. So, it's a process.

The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.

Good scripts are difficult to come by in the industry, especially if you are an outsider.

Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.

It's terrifying. Women make their first film, their second film, and then it's like a nightmare, right, to make the third or fourth? I mean, it's almost like men can have three films in a row that don't do that well and keep on going.

It takes so long to put a movie into production and finish it that anyone with a bad idea has time to give it to you before the movie is completed.

I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.

I didn't have to wait six years to get my show on the air, worry that someone else had a similar idea, or wait around for notes that took my voice out of the show.

Ironically, it's easier to raise the money to make the film than it is to have the film find wide distribution.

As someone of Korean descent, I am certain my road was a bit hard. I have to say anyone who's an aspiring actor has a difficult road regardless of race.

It's incredibly, incredibly difficult to get a movie made.

The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.

It's the hardest thing in the world to be in a business where it's all about people accepting you, and you have a desperate need to be accepted, and yet you live in a, you operate in a society that's now very unaccepting.

Every movie presents its challenges.

You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.

You can't ask the guy with the checkbook to always be the person. So, we actors have to try. And believe me, it's not just young people who are struggling with this, trying to get things of substance made because of the proliferation of technology that it's just harder and harder to get things that really matter made. But they are being done and you just have to fight the good fight and try to... if you have something that you have written, you have to do your best to try to get it made in whatever way you can.

It was harder to break into comics than it was to become a singer in a rock band.

If a young woman is looking at the landscape of Hollywood, what she sees is almost only challenges.

As a producer and director, I've tried for years to get properties off the ground for girls, and I've been hitting a brick wall.

Models have a stigma that they can't act. You're also, to be quite blunt, you're tall and not a lot of actors are tall and when you are starting out you're obviously not the first one cast, so you're trying to fit into a mold. You're quite often not cast as the quirky best friend, but you don't have the experience to be cast as the lead. So it can be really tricky. One of the biggest things is just to get your people, so to speak, your agents and managers to take you seriously. That's one of the issues I had when I came out to LA.

For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it's hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director?

It's certainly a lot more difficult to get a project made if you're talking about something progressive. That's just the nature of the industry.

We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.

The hardest thing in acting is going from child actor to adult actor. It's taken me a long time.