Kenneth Branagh Quotes

I believe in delegating power.

I am a director. I'm the one who can order men around.

Leadership doesn't amount to much unless you have followers.

I'm a leader.

When you have a good director, everything is taken care of.

I let the coach do his job.

I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

Be the chief but never the lord.

Gotta watch out for directors.

I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.

Being a leader doesn't mean you are the guy who runs things.

If you're a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

I don't wilt easily, and a director can't either. He's the captain of the ship and he's got to be in total control. He also has to have respect for the people he's working for. From being an actor and being on a set my whole life, I'm very comfortable there. And I'm not afraid.

I like to be in control of things.

The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you're a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner.

Usually in features, I'm the lead. I consider the director the captain, but I consider myself the first mate, and it's up to me to keep in contact with the heart of the crew.

So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.

I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.

I always liked the idea of leadership and being a captain.

I've never wanted to be the boss.

I like being a leader in real life.

Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process of how people work together, you've got to figure out who's got what responsibilities, and how do they work together.

Being on a set where the director has lost control is just sickening. No one goes the extra mile, there's a lot of eye-rolling... it just breeds inertia. If a director is in control, the crew follow their leader. But the second anyone senses the directors are not sure, people just swoop in.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.