The leader's role is to make sure that strategy is kept super simple.
An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted.
I love directing Shakespeare on film. It's fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part.
We're really having a problem right now in our culture. I haven't seen one movie lately in which the story and visuals have been equally good.
I believe that if you really have a strong idea, you can say, "What do you think? Let's see how my idea plays off yours. "
When I'm working as a director, I might have an idea of my own but I'm also trying to get great ideas out of my actors. Directing is much more psychological - it's a lot like being a general. And you have to be organized. While you're making a film, you have between 2 and 500 people asking you a billion questions.
Because my parents had given me tremendous respect, trust, and freedom as a child, I knew how to take responsibility for myself. If you're constantly being told "No, don't do that" or "We don't trust you," you can't develop that responsibility.
Too many things on my mind, said Wilbur. Well, said the goose, that's not my trouble. I have nothing at all on my mind, but I've too many things under my behind.
If you want to appreciate the Sun, be a miner; to value the land, be a sailor and to long for freedom, get married. . .
Common sense has become an uncommon virtue.
And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared.