Wilmer Valderrama Quotes

I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.

I have a tendency toward being a micromanager.

Of course I have an opinion on many things but I don't micromanage.

You try and pick good people and avoid micromanaging them thereafter.

You run the party or the party runs you.

Even in the band I was in when I was a kid, I'd be telling everyone what to do. I'd be leaning over the drums, telling them to tune their guitars, micromanaging.

I'm not a micromanager. I don't believe in that.

I think that's the job of a director really, to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.

And I'm not a micromanagement guy. I prefer to spend my time doing other stuff than that.

The directing thing, to do it well, I think you have to have a hell of a lot more discipline than I do, or be a lot more willing to really take charge of whole large group of people than I feel comfortable doing - because a director really has to run everything, and be very confident in their ability to do so.

No coach wants to sit back and not have control of the team.

If the director has clarity of thought and vision, you are bound to just go ahead and do what he wants to do. I respect that.

I'm a leader.

I know how to lead.

If we're doing a class project, then I'm going to be the one talking and taking the lead. I might not necessarily put all of the work in the project, but I want to help and do as much as I can and get everyone going in the right direction.

Luckily, as a director I can just tell people what I need and I don't need to tell them how to get it.

It is very hard work, but I am a big believer in not micromanaging; I hire really, really talented people and trust them to do their jobs.

As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around.

On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch -- engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.

Oprah tells women what to read, what to eat, what to think, what to do.

I think, to Chelsea's [Handler] point, I still need directing because sometimes I go a little bit off beat in a way that it's like, rein it in. I welcome that kind of support.

If you have the choice, it's far better to say, "That person has the job, and they really don't need that much of my oversight." Maybe they don't need any of it.

He who thinks he leads, but has no followers, is only taking a walk.

It's the people that ultimately are less talented or have less confidence in what they're doing that then try to micro-manage, which lends itself to a less than ideal film.

I learned that as a director, you're around all these talented people, so you have this window that all these really good ideas can come in to help your movie, so you're crazy to close them. You need to be inspiring people, engaging people. There are lots of people who are really good at their jobs but might not know or feel like they want to come up to people and get them to participate and want to do their best.