Alain Dehaze Quotes

I come from a background where I like collaboration and improv. I think that it is important.

Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.

Here is just the beginning of a list of skills that exam results cannot possibly hope to reflect: interpersonal skills, the ability to entertain, how articulate we are as speakers, our ability to work as part of a team, the ability to deal with challenges and invention.

I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.

I enjoy playing other people. It's a great job and it's challenging. I couldn't do a desk job.

What I know about me is that, in order to lead, you also have to know how to follow.

I know how to work with people. I've worked with the same people for 10 years. I'm not that kind of auteur. I hear ideas.

The energy you create around you is perhaps going to be the most important attribute - in the long run, EQ trumps IQ. Without being a source of energy for others, very little can be accomplished.

Candidates need to demonstrate strategic thinking and strong problem solving skills. And, just as importantly, they need to know when and how to ask for help.

I know how to lead a room, but I also know how to take direction and be a contributor as an artist.

As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.

In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.

If men can learn to be less defensive, more open to others, and more accepting of accountability, they will adapt well to the new global economy.

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.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style - the director, the actor I'm working with.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

I believe you can work with anybody.

I've played sports pretty much my whole life, and that teaches you how to work with anyone, whether you like that person or you don't, and whether you get along with them or you don't. The circumstances don't matter. Team work is part of life.

I am hunting for people who would be a good colleague or a teammate, not someone who works for me.

Eighty to 90 percent of success in a company has nothing to do with business at all - it's all personal.

I think one of my strengths is that I can always take advice, and I can delegate. I know a lot of people feel the need to do everything themselves, but I am not one of them.

Any good director, and I've worked with a few that I would call very good, they know how to disarm any anxieties very quickly.

Doing your job requires different modes, and you can't just be stuck in one mode where you're always the shrill outsider screaming at everybody.