Jane Goldman Quotes

I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.

It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

Tell me one director who will go on record to say that I don't get along with them? I get along famously with all my directors because I am what I am today because of them.

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

Public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

I suppose there are many, but I cannot imagine ever having a more perfect collaboration than that which Penn-san and I shared. It was based upon mutual trust, respect, and a desire to have our own work pushed to new places. And it always resulted in delight.

It was a great experience to work with director A. L. Vijay.

I've worked with some absolutely wonderful directors who bring out the best in me and I know I can trust, and then I've had the opposite experience, too. I've had both experiences, and obviously one is good and one is not good. When they're great, it's good. When they're not great, it's not so great.

I've had great luck with directors. I've worked with all the great ones.

The greatest respect you can give your political adversaries is to give them your undivided attention. If you want them to hear you, you have to be willing to hear them.

I enjoy repartee and frequently engage in devil's advocacy. In short, when I talk to friends, I do not guard every word that I say because I think that I know they know that my commitment to equality and justice is real, and they would not twist my words or misinterpret what I am saying to them.

I think always having somebody that you trust and you know can help in the communication, that is very important.

There are certain things I talk to my mom and certain things I speak to dad for. But I also know that it has never been that I can tell my mum something and my dad won't know. They are very dependent on each other even though they may not say it or realise it.

I've not really been let down by anyone I've admired and then worked with.

I have the deepest respect for Terrence Malick and greatly enjoyed helping him on 'Tree of Life.' I consider him to be a good personal friend and professional contemporary.

I believe in discussing very thoroughly what should be the goal. When discussing it, I allow others to give their views.

We're always working on our communication, which is something that's important. Instead of going through managers to discuss things, we will sit down and have meetings about things. That's a process. And you have to be able to be honest with each other as much as you can.

F. Gary Gray, I think, is one of the best directors I've ever worked with in my life, and I'd love to work with him again.

I think it's important to have conversation about things instead of shutting things down.

There were no secrets in my house. I always knew what was going on.

I can't think of a lot of bad directors I've worked with, really.

I think honest communication, no matter where it comes from, is positive for a relationship.

Having a connection and chemistry with a director is really key.

If you disagree with the way a colleague did something, call him up, invite him out for a coffee, talk about it. But don't do it publicly.