Adrian Lyne Quotes

I'm interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it's difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment, I still feel I'm learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.

There is a saying in entrepreneurship that your early employees are all commandos. Commandos are people who can do almost everything well: emails, strategy, code, design.

When I was younger, I was taught to be as versatile as possible.

I want to work with as many directors as possible because with each director, you learn something new.

I have always aimed for versatility.

I want to be a guy who helps the team a lot of different ways.

I want to be versatile.

I could say I'm a writer or that I'm a musician but I don't really do music; I do music to go with things I'm developing. Then I do act in a few things, but I'm not really an actor. I'm not a comedian, but I am known for comedy. I just don't know. I feel like I'm a slightly interdisciplinary jack of all trades.

I'm very versatile, very dynamic, and I can work around in a lot of places.

I always try to stay versatile.

I pride myself on playing just about every position on the court.

I think a good director can embrace any genre and it's the kind of thing where you always want to do something different. You always want to challenge yourself.

The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

When I just write something, it's usually because I love it, I love the material, but I feel like I really need a creative partner to crack it. And I certainly need and have a lot of creative partners as a director.

I love to work in all sorts of different situations. I think you learn a lot, which is why I try not to approach something the same way, because it might not be appropriate, and then you can get lazy just out of boredom. So I love any approach.

Getting back in the directors chair - there's a sense of like doing something every year. It's not like riding a bike, you're always learning new things, you're gonna face new challenges and when you face new challenges you'll have an answer for them.

You really have to bring your game and know what you want to do. And then, there are the producers and the writers and the director on the other side of the glass, and what they want. You have to be malleable to what's going to work, and you have to stay in the framework of the context.

One of the interesting things is, the most gifted people, the biggest people, have no problem taking small roles.

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.

A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.

Peter Drucker being one of the most important influences because he has helped to think differently about organizational leadership and management. Frankly, I learn something of value from everyone I meet. My Harvard colleagues. My students. The executives I work with. For an eager student, which is what I am, there is so much to be learned from everyday experiences. I'm a sponge. Always will be.

If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.

I think it is fatal to specialize. And all kinds of things show us that and that the more diverse we are in what we can do, the better.

Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?

A good education prepares you well for anything.