Nobody likes me. I know that the Holland boss, Ronald Koeman, appreciates me. But for pundits, TV commentators and in the media, I don't even exist.
It didn't help my career to be living in Appalachia.
You need to have a great support around you, people that empathise, understand and yet support, because these CEO jobs are all-consuming.
My friends in Paris are writers, or something like that, whereas my friends in New York are doing cool stuff in finance and living very different lives. In writing, it's pretty solitary, so it doesn't really matter who's around.
I've experienced a great deal of, you know, ostracism from the making of films.
I realized that I've worked quite independent from the fast-changing trends over all these years.
I don't belong to any country clubs. I don't have this big circle of friends. Where I make my friends is where I work.
I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.
I'm not in the loop; I don't know any actors, really, just the ones I work with.
I get to be in a room with other actors, but I never, or very rarely, get the chance to be in a room with another director.
As an adult, the obsessive dynamics of self-employment meant it was impossible for me to take a break. What would happen if I disappeared for a week or two? I would be forgotten. Forever. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity would, doubtless, present itself - and I would miss the chance to seize it.
I had hoped to do a lot more to help promote science in this country and in Europe, but I cannot see how that can happen. I have become toxic. I have been hung to dry by academic institutes who have not even bothered to ask me for my side of affairs.
People in the CIA, they marry each other. They're like actors! We have to travel without much warning to far-flung places, and it's very hard to communicate what our experiences are like to those in the outside world.
Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.
Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.
I was the only female in the special trials unit for many years.
It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.
I spent a lot of time in Japan. To me, I felt like my career was kind of marooned out there. I didn't realize the extent of the reach that New Japan had in America and around the world.
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe.
Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so they don't even talk - sometimes not even with their girlfriend or boyfriend or friends - about what they are doing.
Personally, I've never been popular, so I'm not surprised that professionally I'm a bit out of step, too.
I've learned to keep my work on the stage or on the screen.
Actors very often are people who think it's always about 'me,' and I can see why! No one else is going to support you or say, 'Gosh, I'm sorry about that,' or, 'Here, let me give you a job.' It doesn't happen that way.
If someone were plucked from the group and given those responsibilities, they might find themselves growing more aloof, just by virtue of that promotion. Suddenly the group culture excludes you. I saw this in my own working life, and I don't think it's a coincidence - I sensed a kind of loneliness in middle managers especially.
