Paul Feig Quotes

Surround yourself with people you can always learn something from. Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

I always try to work with people who are better than me, so I can learn more.

I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.

What you learn from working with other performers and musicians is invaluable, really, and can only help you grow. I mean, if you spend your whole life focusing on yourself, you're not really learning much.

I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.

I think it's always great to not be the smartest person in the room because I don't want to ever feel like I can't improve upon what I'm doing. I just want to surround myself with people that are better actors than me and better singers and dancers and see what happens.

It was a great learning experience to work with James Stewart.

I learn a lot from my experiences and collaborations. Most of my collaborations are meant for me to learn.

You always want to improve, learn from the veterans on the team.

I've been lucky enough to, for the most part, surround myself with a lot of people who are more talented than me and who I can learn from, and it makes me up my game.

You don't get any better unless you're around guys who know more than you.

I'm lucky to be surrounded by incredibly talented people at Pixar, of course, and I learn a lot from them each and every day.

I am here just to learn, to improve, to help my team improve.

I love learning new things from the other actors.

There are always a ton of different people to learn from and people that are pushing me to get better.

I think I'm always willing to learn and listen to the coaches and the manager and listen to the advice of the players in the team as well, so whenever I get the advice, I try to take it on board and just try to help myself get better.

I'm a coachable person. I don't like to lead myself. I've been taught by great people, and I was able to listen to them.

I wanted to just surround myself with people who I think are better than I am, whether they're actors or directors or producers, so that I could learn from them.

Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.

The smartest thing a director can do is surround himself with really good people.

I'm not interested in the mad race. I just like working with good people.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

I think the only way you learn is to surround yourself with people that are better than you.

I love to be directed, and I can glean something from almost anyone.