Quotes About Development

When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen.

My career has taken so many directions.

It does make you a better director and a better actor.

I guess once you've been acting for a long time, you glean the great bits of good directors and the bad bits from other directors, and you know the way that you would like to be directed.

I know what difference it makes to a community if a dirt road becomes a bitumen road.

Just taking a piece of dirt and envisioning the building you'd like to put on it - it's an amazing process.

You know, Kinect... I'll be honest with you. It was a disaster.

I have been working on my backhand since I was the age of five. And it's a disaster, my backhand, so I'm working on it.

Some scenes comes together really quickly, and some scenes are disasters that take forever. But it sort of works itself out over time.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

I don't mind sacrifice. I don't mind discipline. But a good coach allows people to blossom. I've seen that. I didn't have it.

When I was young, I wasn't disciplined at all.

In a lot of cases, writers discover that the novel needs to begin later in the action than they'd first thought.

And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before.

Usually, I don't feel comfortable with a character until I've played him before an audience for several performances. It is not until after three months of performing that I learn to discover what I call 'all the nooks and crannies' of the person.

I would play games long enough to discover what games were doing and how they were doing it. And then I'd spend the rest of my time building.

If you discover that a role isn't complex, you can speak to somebody about it and they'll help you push it when you're on set.

There are people who compose from very young. That is not my case. I went discovering myself.

Cadila, India's sixth-largest drugmaker by sales, spent $250 million developing Lipaglyn, a new chemical entity or new discovery, and aims to spend another $150 million to $200 million to launch the drug outside India.

Kids under, I'd say, 14 are still maturing; they are still growing. They are still understanding themselves. To hit them with something like 'Roots,' to hit them with this particular period of time, it's important to discuss the matters beyond the program itself.

When I was doing 'Baahubali 2,' the story was being discussed with many people. The story evolved over 9-10 months in that way.

I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.

With age likes and dislikes change.

I used to walk in the Bowery in the early 1980s, and it was not safe. It went from this to Disneyland under Giuliani and Bloomberg. This is now one of the best-run big cities in the world.