Tommy Lee Jones Quotes

You can have X's and O's, you can have talent, but if you don't have a vision, it won't work.

If the right people do the right things, we can walk, we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way, I don't think your team will work.

A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.

A strong team can take any crazy vision and turn it into reality.

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.

The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

The idea, as a director, is to be able to bring everybody on board and to inspire and give energy to everybody and to explain specific color, specific ambience. I need to be very precise, but I think I'm a better director when I'm more a channeler than a dictator.

In all things, you need a good organization. You can have the best player in the world; if you do not have the best team, you will not win.

Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together.

It's one thing to be able to analyze something. It's another to implement it or execute on a vision or even to get a whole bunch of people to rally behind it.

You work to make sure that, in the game, everybody knows where they're supposed to be at, and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But if you put them in a position to be successful, that's all you can ask for.

Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.

If the vision is not right and if the right group of players is not together, it doesn't come together.

Ideas are easy. Execution is everything. It takes a team to win.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

I'm learning more and more to share creativity with the crew and actors. A film crew is more powerful if you listen to them, but it does make my job more tough because I have to listen.

Every film you work on is different, and that's part of what it's like for anybody who works on a film, is to learn how to work with others. Learn from top to bottom. Actors have to learn how to work with the director and the director has to learn how to work with actors, and that's not just those two departments.

You always want to be on top of the playbook. You always want to be refreshed with the plays, make sure you're on the same page with everyone else.

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

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

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.

Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day execution work of keeping it going. But people need to stay connected to the boldness, to the vision, and stay plugged in to the main vein of the dream.