Christopher Nolan Quotes

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 always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.

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.

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.

To be a leader is to be awake and dissatisfied at all times. Leadership is action. Leadership is influence

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

As a business owner, leadership is more than just telling others what to do. Leadership is about the investment we make into others and the responsibilities we accept for being the voice and direction that others count on.

Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.

Leadership is more about clarity than it is about control.

Leadership is about stepping up when it's the appropriate time and then making sure everyone knows that we're all on the same page.

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

Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong.

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.

In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand.

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.

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like.

In the end, leadership comes down to consistency and strong, confident action upon which the team can rely - and this doesn't mean imposing a bunch of rules.

One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.

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.

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

People look for their leadership to lead.

Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.