Alan Arkin Quotes

For me, the director is the most important thing. He is steering the boat. If you don't trust him, you won't be able to give him your all.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

As a leader, you have to have a vision that inspires people around you.

Being able to communicate what your vision is clearly and with specificity is the most important thing a director can do.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

What drives the creative person is that we see it all.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

I think a good director is a good listener.

Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

I have hundreds of poems memorized. Mostly by others, but also my own. I use the poems when I lead retreats for management groups on topics like creating teams, or coming up with a more entrepreneurial system, or creating more excitement.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.

Leaders create a sense of urgency. And along with that you have to create a sense of hope and a direction.

The idea, as a director, is to be able to bring everybody on board and to inspire and give energy to everybody and to explain specific color, specific ambience. I need to be very precise, but I think I'm a better director when I'm more a channeler than a dictator.

As a director, you realise the bigger picture.

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

I admired Stephen Daldry very much; I think he's a brilliant director, and also, I feel close to him because he has a lot of theater behind him. He's also a man of great imagination and a lovely sense of humor.

As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.

I dreamed really big when I was little.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.