Quotes about Personal Growth

I've cheated myself: there are other things I could have done to fill out the bouquet of my career.

My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.

I wish I had gone to a film school.

I used to not listen that much, but I've really learnt to listen to other people and to really listen to what they're saying. I've found, especially being on a film set, people have so many different stories; if you just listen, you can pick up so much stuff. I try to listen as much as I can.

Life experiences cannot be learnt on the film set or in front of the camera.

Filming 'The Drew,' thinking a lot about story arcs and all that stuff, I thought about how my career ended. I decided I wanted to try to rewrite that.

I came out of 'Che' a different filmmaker.

After working for a while, I realized that acting was only satisfying about 30 percent of what interested me about the filmmaking process. Somewhere around age seventeen, I started to realize that if I'm very particular about the people I work with, then I can have the best sort of master class possible.

That's the problem I have, I don't have a filter. It's something that I'm working on.

Can you blame them? We have to filter so much information these days. But it does make it difficult for an artist. I'm 46 years old now. I've had a lot of life experience and my voice has changed. People who expect the same old me are bound to be disappointed.

It's funny because when I got 'Jarhead' and 'Avatar' and all those movies, 'Leprechaun' still to this day airs on BET. I was thinking, 'Will they just let it go? I finally have a body of work that can speak much better to what I can do than just Leprechaun.'

I am happy to have now as Danny finally a more difficult role, in which I can shoot and fight.

The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.

Living in the 'Bigg Boss' house is a roller-coaster ride. I didn't expect to reach the finals. But I was sure that I would be in the top five.

I ended up moving to Dubai and going into finance after college because of family pressure. I was trying to love it, but I just didn't.

To change your mind about something is always difficult. I think that people who are big enough to admit they were wrong can be counted on your fingers.

A person is not the same in his life at all times. Your consciousness is developing all the time. When I started making 'El Topo,' I was one person. When I finished that picture, I was another person.

I did learn a lot from 'Things We Lost in the Fire,' but I've learned different things from different films.

You need somebody to be firm with you and hard on you and watch you progress.

Vir made his first appearance at age four months. The more he gets exposed to the people and the life that I have lead, it's good.

I got married at 20, and I was not a real mature 20. My first child was born when I was 21.

So I went and got my first job at 28, trying to think what I am going to do, I've never worked for anybody, so I decided to go and write and send my CV off to everyone.

No matter what you do in life, it's always a struggle, to first of all find who you are.