Miriam Margolyes Quotes

I try to find the right director who won't compromise his or anyone else's integrity, and yet be political enough to give the studio what they want, yet put up a fight to maintain that integrity.

The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.

What I did was sit down with the Washington State officials, with the historic preservation people, with the tribe, the local community, the port of Port Angeles, and we worked this thing out, and we protected the tribe's interest.

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

You cannot work with men who won't work with you.

You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.

My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.

So I told Robert from the start that if we couldn't get Charles and Max to take part, but especially Charles, that I didn't want to make the film. So would he call his mother and talk to Charles and see if Charles would at all be interested.

The struggle of making a film for any studio is the fact that the producers and the studio have an idea of what the movie should be, but that is especially the case when the director is being replaced three weeks before principal photography. The challenge for me was to make sure that was my version of 'The Wolfman.' And I've done that. I think.

You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.

I hope it goes beyond meeting with them to a willingness to listen and compromise on issues.

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others. Having studied so long trying to master myself, the biggest challenge was learning about the other person's work.

I simply do not think that yelling, swearing, threatening or belittling will get you to the place you want to be faster than kindness, understanding, patience and a little willingness to compromise.

That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly.

If you listen, you'll learn. If you talk over each other, you don't accomplish anything.

Boards and myself get along somehow.

Ultimately, peace depends on compromise.

We need a lot more respect in this country for compromise…. There is in compromise a lot of integrity, especially political integrity.

Conflict resolution cannot be merely about eliminating all opposition or reducing the choices in negotiating the problem to two mutually exclusive sets of rights and wrongs. Rather, it must consist of laboring to bring everybody to accept reality and then to project a future with this understanding as the foundation.

if we stop talking at one another, and start talking with one another, we can get a lot done.

The more people talk directly to each other, the better. Dialogue is the way of solving issues.

We can calm down our argument a little so that we can learn what it is that we are actually arguing about.

You don't promote the cause of peace by talking only to people with whom you agree.