Michael Arad Quotes

A big part of the job of being a showrunner is, in my way of thinking, being a good communicator because there's really no other way to have hope for getting what you want, at the end of the day.

Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.

I put projects together. I put people together.

Try to rally up as many people as you can with as much information as you can to try to get it to appear in front of the right people in the organization who are the decision-makers to greenlight the project.

I was always very detail-oriented, and in the time I spent in different roles - the elected official, the campaign manager - I had a tendency to want to push the creation of the product and really work on the critical path that would get to product.

The thing is that when you are a director, you need to be involved in a lot of different fields. You must be a psychologist, an architecture expert; you must be a choreographer.

I want to be a guy who helps the team a lot of different ways.

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.

The path to success isn't through my lizard brain, it's through high quality collaboration and making good stuff and understanding difficult situations fully enough to come up with good (or even great) solutions quickly.

Founders need sizable egos to believe that what they are creating is good enough to change the world. What makes for great co-founders is having those egos focused on complementary, not competing, skills.

I like to think I would adapt to the way that any manager who came in would want to play.

When you're a director, the job itself forces you to take charge.

My job as a director is to communicate, and I want to communicate to all.

I'm an all-around type player.

I try to implement my own ways of making teams successful.

You can't do anything successfully in life without leadership.

The leadership qualities that you have to have to be a producer on a film is something I learned being a captain on the team.

To be a dean, you have to be a salesman as well as a scholar.

As a director, you realise the bigger picture.

Usually I've had two jobs: be the best defender and the best scorer.

I believe in MWA - management by walking around - so I spend as much time as possible traveling and visiting franchise partners. You only learn by walking around and meeting people.

A director must be patient and unflappable. I think I was always pretty relaxed. I don't find shooting as traumatic as some directors do. Some hate it. But you also have to be strong-willed and persistent enough to get what you want.

A game director, in my mind, is somebody who makes everybody on the team miserable for the duration of the project.

A manager has to have all different sides covered.

An entrepreneur need not know everything but he or she should lead a team of persons who are thorough in different aspects.