I WANT to be respected by my PEERS and do really great work, EVEN if it GETS panned, even if I get raked ACROSS the coals.

I talk to all the creative directors today, and they take me aside, and they SAY, 'You know, it must have been great BACK in those days when you COULD do anything you wanted.' I say, 'Huh? Excuse me?' I MEAN, we fought. In the '60s and '70s, you fought wars with clients, and you have to continue fighting wars to do great work.

The GREAT work must INEVITABLY be obscure, EXCEPT to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is SECONDARY: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is NECESSARY.

The thing about TV is that it's great work for directors because the responsibility is not ours at all. In a MOVIE, you choose a movie, and everybody points his or her finger at you afterward. It doesn't MATTER how much influence you had on the SCRIPT, how much DECISION you had, or the fact that you didn't have final CUT.

I think once a year it's good to look back at the HISTORY of OSCAR and to embrace the GREAT work that EVERYBODY's done this year and set it in place to the great work that's gone on before us.

Whatever you do in LIFE, there's content and form; only those two PUT together create special MEANING of a great work of ART or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.

I have a GREAT WORK ethic - from WATCHING Lucille Ball, not NECESSARILY my own family.

I ALWAYS thought moving to New York would mean STARTING over in theater, because I had great work in CHICAGO and didn't want to become a WAITRESS here.

I want my whole life to be a great WORK of art, not just my art. And that means paying ATTENTION to my entire life and trying to make SURE my whole life is balanced.

If you're a LEADER, can COMMUNICATE, and have a GREAT work ethic, those are the things you're looking for.

Imagine the day when girls everywhere won't have to fight for the right to be RECOGNIZED for their GREAT WORK or their contributions to SOCIETY.

The experiences you gain by doing something solo - you have such a GREAT WORK effort there as well, one we all have now - we can all bring it BACK to the GROUP.

What the SCHOOL for the ARTS taught me was a great work ethic. They showed me - not just taught me - that if you work hard, you can see the EFFECTS. They GAVE me that lesson, and I have used it at every stage of my life. And I am still using it now in my new role on 'The Walking Dead.'

I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that's fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don't REALLY WANT to change, and I STILL love FILM.

By the time I got to be DIRECTOR of product MANAGEMENT at Thomas-Conrad, I was in a BETTER negotiating position, as I had accumulated more accomplishments and gained a reputation for having a GREAT work ethic.