Marshall Herskovitz Quotes

Although I receive a small salary from Apple, I do virtually no real work at the company.

What we have is a pay structure that, on basic wages, is higher than market rate, as a general statement. When you look at other forms of retail, whether they be food or non-food, we pay more. If you look at our health care benefits, we pay a lot more.

Dude, I throw a stick. Come on. I get paid a pretty good salary to throw a stick.

I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.

You can't be pro-labor and anti-business.

If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.

I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.

I believe in workers' rights when people are doing a good job.

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

I've got more creative control when I do music.

A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers.

The Bethlehem profit-sharing system is based on my belief that every man should get exactly what he makes himself worth. This is the only plan I know of which is equally fair to the employers and every class of employee. Someday, I hope, all labor troubles will be solved by such a system.

When I left SEIU, we had started this quality public service agenda to say to our members what I think the United Auto Workers learned: that quality is our only job security in the long run.

Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.

I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.

It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

Having a studio tell you when to jump and how high eight months of the year for six years is not a relationship I want to get into again.

Unions inherently create an 'us versus them' dynamic that makes winning against a company's management the top goal, not serving customers, innovating, or in the case of education, teaching kids.

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.

But I feel that I have a responsibility to help the film and I have relations with the studio and with those who put up the money so that I can tell a story that I believe in.

Labor should be recognized as entitled to consult with management in the mutual interest. Labor cannot be driven, and business cannot be successful unless the men employed in it are enthusiastic and loyal. That loyalty cannot be obtained with a big stick; it must be based upon fair dealing and sympathy.

I want to be able to manipulate and control my career from the creative side.

When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.

I don't necessarily love all the collaborations that I've done; the more I work with other people, the more I realize that I want to work with myself.

I am always on the side of labor when there is any compromise to be made.