Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

It always depends on who you work with. It is not about the budget, not about the countries but about people.

The best way to know people is to work with them.

When you do a movie, it's like going on a journey. It's really like the director is the captain of the ship, and that energy, everybody feels.

The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.

You have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you're in a group of people that you work with. It's not so much, do they make you feel good when you're around them all the time; it's how can you make everyone feel comfortable together.

You can't just throw people at all your problems, dear.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.

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

Without constantly pushing my senior colleagues to formulate decisions, I would never be able to learn and know what they are made of.

Each director maintains a different personality. Either you get along, or you don't.

Coming in, you're so concerned about learning your job and the things you need to do to be successful individually. Once that's good, you can start to focus on learning guys around you and learning defenses and what they're trying to do to you.

In my solo series, I feel like I've often dealt with groups of people.

I am very balanced. I care passionately about people and customers but also about the numbers, and hopefully that view brings something to the party.

I wanted to work with Shashank Shah. He is a very clear individual.

When it comes to filmmaking, we have to deal with ego, anger, and a lot more; barring all these, how the team works towards the outcome matters.

Working with different people anyway is like life and meeting different people... as long as you can be empathetic, you can take a bit of them on and see what you can do to help their process. That said, my relationship with Woody Allen was trying to hang on his every word so that I could tell everybody what he said afterwards. But certainly, he was a very good example of somebody who you didn't hear talk above a very low volume for the entire time he was on-set.

Relationships are the foundation of leadership.

Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career advancement and education, most successful people learn to be competitive with their peers, and protective of their reputations. It is a challenge for them to turn those instincts off for the good of the team, but that is exactly what is required.

It was a pleasure to have somebody else be the boss. It wouldn't have been nearly as much fun any other way. He's been around and made a lot of movies and he's a great straightforward person to work for. And it was a pleasure to see other people to pick up characters that you've sketched out loosely on paper and make them into something fascinating.

Sometimes the best set experiences make for the worst films. So, you don't want it to be too good an experience! But the bulk of your life is working with people and collaborating so you don't want anyone to be miserable on your film either. You want it to be something that people walk away from saying that it was a good experience for them and hopefully a good film. As a director, you are sort of leader of that troupe for that period of time, so you're aware of morale and your effect - how you are as a person and how that sort of trickles down to everyone else.

On the 'X-Men' films, people are always throwing out ideas and trying to get the shot to look the best and make the most sense, and to get it done efficiently. Everybody collaborates and everybody is very open to new ideas.

Absolutely, you rise and fall based on your creative team. I have continuity across different films that I've done. I was even fortunate enough to reach back and include people that had worked on Horton with me, as well.

We sort of quickly realized every rhythm, Opetaia [Foa'i] takes the lead.