Hayao Miyazaki Quotes

I think the best directors rarely lose their temper.

A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, 'If you don't know how to make the right decision, you're not a director.'

Showing leadership doesn't mean every employee will run the organization; that would lead to chaos. Businesses do need someone to set the vision and then lead the team to it.

I love to direct! I get really jazzed by directing, but directing is not the same kind of personal expression, the same kind of personal intimate expression that writing is. Because when you're directing, you're basically managing, basically getting out of people doing their job, except when you see them going astray.

My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.

All directors have their strengths and weaknesses, as all actors have, and all artists. What you try to do is complete the relationship and take care of the stuff that the director won't take care of.

If I hire a coach, he's the coach and will run what he knows and is comfortable with. Will it be part of the process? Absolutely. But I am not going to interfere that way as the president.

Galliani is a great leader but can't understand players.

The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President.

I think there are lots of ways to exercise ambition and accomplish things using leadership without going into elected politics. So, categorically, I have no intention of going into elected politics. None.

Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.

I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.

It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.

At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills.

Too many managers manage by what the postgame press conference is going to be.

You don't have to be popular with the players to be a good manager or coach.

You know, I think when you coach or you manage, you make decisions, and there's some that are really, really tough.

As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.

A CEO needs to build their own team.

Meetings get a bad rap, and deservedly so - most are disorganized and distracted. But they can be a critical tool for getting your team on the same page.

So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that he can say, 'oh yeah - that's a great point.' And you never know; often you can help far more than you think you can, because there's so much more that he's juggling than an actor.

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

I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.

I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.

I think leadership is most effective when it's your own personality. But I feel like it's a natural progression as a quarterback, as well.