Walter Salles Quotes

Writers, actors, anybody working on an ensemble-type thing, there are going to be some creaks in the beginning. It seems like there's tremendous potential in just letting things sort of breathe a little bit. It's tremendously important.

We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them.

When I started doing projects for TV, I made sure to participate in the brainstorming sessions.

Agility is fundamental to leading a team through times of change.

In every decision that we've ever made that's important, the more input, the more people we've heard from, the better the result. And so that will never change in the business model of NASCAR, because the ideas come from all over the place, and that's the strength that we have.

In our band, we had such an interesting democracy, and it worked really well.

As a writer, you're really in control of almost everything. That's not the case in TV. You have to be prepared to work with a lot of people to make something happen, and you got to be prepared, at least in the beginning, to not be too good at your specific task.

Launching a start-up, you need to get a lot done quickly. Every day is different. Everyone pitches in with everything. It's easy for the founding team to say, 'We're flexible. We all help out with everything!' But when it comes to making decisions - that flexibility can spell inefficiency and disaster.

Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because you have to find the right idea.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

Vince or Brad or Benicio would say, Maybe we should try this, and Guy was open to changes.

The only thing we don't do together is get in front of an actor and show any indecision at all about what we think. We don't always agree, so we meet privately, then one or the other will approach the actor.

But I just think we've got such a continuity with what we're doing that most people come in and fill in the blanks. And sometimes we leave a lot of blanks to be filled.

The environment in a writer's room, I've really come to feel, should be some form of democracy.

I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.

I know how to work with people. I've worked with the same people for 10 years. I'm not that kind of auteur. I hear ideas.

Pretty much, I am always open to input from everyone; although I don't require it, the feedback is conducive to getting the play together.

There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do.

As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

I never stop to plan. I take things step by step.

I like to collaborate on my music. The creative process is fun, and you get a lot of ideas from having discussions about it. Ultimately, the final decision is mine.

When a film works, the director had a lot to do with that, but the director also didn't have a lot to do with that. There are so many moving parts. It's really about being open to how the river is flowing and trying to get on the river.

I wait and take on projects that I think can work.

I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge.

When there's a clear vision, and you've got the creative teams working toward that goal, each on their own, it can then come together quite elegantly at the endpoint.