John C. Mather Quotes

I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.

I have only worked with Saroj Ji once in my life and in the one time that I worked with her, I learned so many things.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

I guess I work well with others I handle younger actors well.

I consider myself very much a team player.

Coming in, you're so concerned about learning your job and the things you need to do to be successful individually. Once that's good, you can start to focus on learning guys around you and learning defenses and what they're trying to do to you.

One of the things I did well as a young kid was to link well with the rest of the team, so I reckon it's something which is natural for me.

Every player in every team speaks to each other in order to improve the quality on the pitch - that communication is necessary.

I feel like you always learn different things from different teams.

Everybody knows I am a team player.

I've been able to work with so many people, so I love asking advice from as many as possible.

I felt like a coach. I just wanted to do what I could as far as helping guys understand what was going to happen early and get the best feedback I could and be a great teammate.

I love solving the problems of having groups work together and removing barriers. But to actually turn around and be in the center of that is an awkward place to be.

I pick good big men as teammates, don't I?

If there is anything I wanted to learn in Europe, it was how I could be more of a team player.

I love managing characters. Characters make teams and I believe I can deal with all sorts. The most important thing is being able to pass my knowledge on to others and allowing them to flourish as individuals and as part of a team with a specific strategy.

It's about what the players are doing. My job is facilitate that. My job is to put them in positions to succeed. My job is to listen to their ideas, take them if they're good, quietly push them to the side if they're not. My job is to help them grow.

One way Great Teams can connect their team members together is through the glue of mentoring.

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

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.

Both of my sisters have been teachers and they used to say you get asked between 300 and 600 questions every day which you have to answer. That's exactly what directing is. And the vast majority of those questions are not very interesting really, but they need somebody to make a decision - a good one or a bad one - and they follow it.

I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.

Every time I work on a new set, I take whatever I can from it and learn as much as I can around the people who I am working with.

I always step back and look at - you know, look at my background in playing team sports my whole life and taking that approach into Congress. It's not about me going, and you know, feeding my ego going to Congress.

In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.