Since making movies is such a messy process, we need to be able to talk candidly, among ourselves, about the mess without having it shared outside the company. By sharing problems and sensitive issues...
If you aren’t experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake:
Si hay un miedo, hay una razón, y nuestro trabajo es encontrar la razón y ponerle remedio. La tarea de dirigir no es evitar los riesgos sino crear la capacidad de subsanar los problemas.
I know that a lot of our successes came because we had pure intentions and great talent, and we did a lot of things right, but I also believe that attributing our successes solely to our own intellige...
Obligated to be honest somehow
Easy isn’t the goal. Quality is the goal.
Creativity involves missteps and imperfections.
One of my core management beliefs: If you don’t try to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead.
You can’t manage what you can’t measure is a maxim that is taught and believed by many in both the business and education sectors. But in fact, the phrase is ridiculous—something said by people who ar...
So if your primary goal is to have a fully worked out, set-in-stone plan, you are only upping your chances of being unoriginal.
Candor could not be more crucial to our creative process.
There is no growth or success without change. For
Philip Glass once said, The real issue is not how do you find your voice, but … getting rid of the damn thing.
I’ve made a policy of trying to hire people who are smarter than I am.
When you begin to grasp that big and little problems are structured similarly, then that helps you maintain a calmer perspective. Moreover, it helps you remain open to an important reality: If all our...
Our models of the world so distort what we perceive that they can make it hard to see what is right in front of us. (I’m using model somewhat generally here to mean the preconceptions we have built up...
That’s the place you’re looking for: when the movie starts to tell you what it wants to be.
Steve used aggressive interplay as a kind of biological sonar. It was how he sized up the world.
Pero la facilidad no es la meta; la excelencia sí lo es.
It isn't enough merely to be open to ideas from others. Engaging the collective brainpower of the people you work with is an active, ongoing process. As a manager, you must coax ideas out of your staf...