Brian Eno Quotes

As a producer you have creative control, and that's what is so exciting about it. At the end of the day, if you have made a film it's totally your responsibility, and if it works it's your responsibility and if it doesn't it's also your responsibility.

If you're the star of a show, the next one has to be as good or better, and if you're doing a series, if anything goes wrong, it's your fault. There's nobody else to blame.

Listen to what I tell you and do it. If you do, three things can happen: One, it will work and you'll get credit. Two, it won't work and I'll get the blame. Three, you'll do it wrong and you'll be gone.

Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.

I am aware that as an actor, I can blame others for the failure of a film, the director, the script, choice of co-stars, timing of the release and so on. But now, as the director, I will have to shoulder all the blame.

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

I have been very lucky to have final cut in all my films; everything that is wrong in them is my fault.

Victory finds a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

The director does not have anyone to blame but himself. He or she cannot hide behind anybody. If a film is a hit, everyone gets the credit, but if it flops, only the director can be blamed.

Success has many fathers and failure is an orphan.

I'm willing to take the blame if the strip goes down the drain, and I want the credit if it succeeds. So long as it has my name on it, I want it to be mine.

If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

Creating some god for one's inspirations was always a good way to avoid accusations of pride should the scheme succeed, as well as the blame if did not.

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.

You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I think it allows you to coach free. You're coaching with freedom because you know you're doing what you think is right.

I say, 'You can never use excuses because they always run out.'

The way you can be careful of the catastrophe that success can bring is by paying attention to something else that comes along with success - responsibility.

You can't mess up. If you do, everyone wants to kill you.

Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

It's about you. If you win, it's you; if you lose, it's you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.

You ran away and left us to do the job that you could not do.

I don't even know what 'successful' means. We're all failures. Look at the world. We're all complicit.