Norman Jewison Quotes

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

I do whatever the manager tells us to do, really.

I play where I'm told to play.

The only requirement of a fan or a patient is the surrender to authority.

For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

I didn't have a dysfunctional childhood or young adulthood, but I was somebody who was very much raised to do what other people told me to do as a person.

I'm fairly obedient. I do what I'm told.

Since I was 9, I'd been told what to say, what to think.

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

Those who know the least obey the best.

I remember being taught my place.

If they can talk to you over a secure telephone line, then you have to do what they want.

They go where I tell them and do what I tell them.

He who must serve me, must do as I command. He who cannot do this, or who comes full of new ideas, may go his way. If he does not, I shall send him.

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

Those who can, must obey.

The path of freedom is blocked much more by those who wish to obey than by those who wish to command.

I've never been able to accept any kind of discipline.

When you were under contract, you did what you were told to do.

I'm not going to kiss any rings from anybody.

You have the belt, you fight who they tell you to fight.

Anticipatory obedience teaches authorities what is possible and accelerates unfreedom.

I don't like rules, because rules, you have to follow.

Whatever my agent says to do, I usually do.