Ricky Schroder 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 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 leader, these attributes - confidence, perseverance, work ethic and good sense - are all things I look for in people. I also try to lead by example and create an environment where good questions and good ideas can come from anyone.

I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.

I try to direct myself the way I direct the other actors who come on my show.

You have to lead by example. You have to be the calmest person in the room. You have to be very open. I think the qualities of a director are to enable and to find the best in everybody.

I'm trying to be the coach. My actors are my players. They're doing things that I'm too cowardly to do myself.

You lead with direction, and you try to lead by example. I try to be there when things are not good and obviously share the spoils of success.

There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.

I direct with energy. I believe in energy. I think energy is an electric thing in actors. I try to inspire, encourage, and make choices with lots of energy. And truth. I'm big fan of truth and being funny. I like leading 50 people into battle every day.

I think a good director is a good listener.

Tarantino is the coolest damn guy; he's just so much fun to work with. He might be the best director I've ever worked with. He just seems to know how to do it and he knows how to make you feel good about it. He's having so much fun you start having fun. You can't help it.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.

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

Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.'

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

I always admired Walt's optimism. He seemed to know the direction he was going to. When I was at the studio, I remember he kept driving all of us back down to a more fundamental level all the time.

Leadership is an individual sport, one that has to be fine-tuned to each of the people that reports to you. Leaders also need to provide the direction, energy, encouragement and inspiration for each person who reports directly to the leader as well as for the overall organization.

I can lead my team.

I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is.

I don't think you can control people. I don't think you manage people. I think you give people a direction, you give them the resources, you lead by example. They get it right, you say, 'Atta girl.' And they get it wrong, you say, 'Not good.'

Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.

I'm a leader.

I know how to lead.