Tom Hanks Quotes

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.

Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

Part of the process of acting in a film that you're also directing is really trusting the people around you to capture your vision, which hopefully you have communicated well to them.

I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.

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.

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

Fundamentally, what you're trying to do when you're directing is get a group of people who most likely have never met, unify them, and make sure that we're all clear on what we're marching towards.

Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.

Your director is your everything and you devote yourself to them and you want to help create their vision.

I think when you make a movie, one of your main focuses as a director is to inspire everyone else to give their best. Like manipulation.

It's entirely to do with personality, I think. There are good directors who talk a lot, bad directors who talk a lot, and good directors who don't say much and vice-versa. It just depends on whether people respond to that personality and whether people have a willingness to do something for them.

I am used to being on tours with people who are fantastic performers and I respect them and I love their music. But the bottom line is they got the vision for what we are trying to do.

When I'm working as a director, I might have an idea of my own but I'm also trying to get great ideas out of my actors. Directing is much more psychological - it's a lot like being a general. And you have to be organized. While you're making a film, you have between 2 and 500 people asking you a billion questions.

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

I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.

There are two qualities that I've noticed in good directors: One is that they have their vision very strongly in place; and two is that they listen to everyone's opinion and still remember their vision.

Fashion is much more collaborative than one might think. You have to have an idea and vision, and you have to communicate that vision to a team of people, and you have to create an environment that allows those people to give the best that they can give.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

I think a good director is a good listener.

Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.

Usually in features, I'm the lead. I consider the director the captain, but I consider myself the first mate, and it's up to me to keep in contact with the heart of the crew.

I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.