David Ogden Stiers Quotes

And, all these things need to be coordinated; so we all need to work together, have timers going and everything so we're all coordinated and get this piece of orchestration done.

In our business, everything is timing.

With any independent film, it's all about getting everyone's schedules in line and everything together at the same time and just doing the best you can do when that happens - if it happens.

If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.

You always want to be on top of the playbook. You always want to be refreshed with the plays, make sure you're on the same page with everyone else.

Directing takes a lot of time.

Hopefully, next year if we can get everything sorted out and together.

I'm surprised that I actually pulled off the recording, getting all those people at the same time.

In a disaster you have to have speed. In order to have speed, you have to have trust. And in order to have trust, you have to have people organized and planning before the disaster.

Once you have a blueprint down, you start talking to all the other heads of department to see if and how they can help to execute what you've imagined, and so things change and evolve. And then you have to make it work within the budget and time frame, so things change even more.

It takes all 11 on the field doing their job correctly to make it all happen.

It's one thing to be able to analyze something. It's another to implement it or execute on a vision or even to get a whole bunch of people to rally behind it.

When I started to do it with precision, I realized how much setting good screens made us better as a team offensively. It made things easy for me and my teammates.

Timing is everything for me, especially.

Leaders tend to focus on 'what to do,' but the real issue is more often 'how to do it.'

Organizing has to be a 12-month endeavor.

Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.

As in life, so with television: timing is everything.

In all things, you need a good organization. You can have the best player in the world; if you do not have the best team, you will not win.

The passing game is timing and trust, expecting those guys to be in the right spot at the right time.

I don't think I've ever worked on anything that wasn't way bigger than we expected. That's all the way back to working on fighting games at Paradox. Everything seems to balloon when more and more people get involved.

I don't really see the point in planning to show off-schedule. I think it's things like showing on-schedule that helps London be organised as it is.

You can have X's and O's, you can have talent, but if you don't have a vision, it won't work.

If everyone knows the role they play, and they do their job - executing it well and with enthusiasm - it comes together successfully every time.

The quarterback-receiver connection is a constant work in progress. You're always working on your communication on the field, off the field.