Ricky Schroder Quotes

I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.

It's hard sometimes if you think a character should look a certain way and you're being pushed to do it differently. I've had fights over that. That's why it's so important that you work with good people.

Your director is your everything and you devote yourself to them and you want to help create their vision.

I'd love to collaborate with a writer, but I'm such a control freak, it might be difficult.

I get along great with directors, but I think some producers would tell you I'm a pain. They may say I'm tough to work with, but I have a great passion for what I do. I believe in fighting for it.

We don't always agree on stuff, but when it's time to blow the whistle and start the game, we're not still debating.

I try to find the right director who won't compromise his or anyone else's integrity, and yet be political enough to give the studio what they want, yet put up a fight to maintain that integrity.

I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.

I have an amazing team; I have amazing producers; I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing.

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly.

The biggest thing I have realized was that you have to choose your collaborators very carefully, and that not everybody can like you. The process of filmmaking is so difficult, there's no point in doing it unless you can do it the way you want.

Consensus doesn't happen by magic... You have to drive to it.

The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.

You have to work with people you really love.

What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.

As an actor, you're always at the service of somebody else's vision. In a play, it's more of the director's vision, and he or she's got their hands on you all the way up to opening night, and if it's a film, there are even more people.

All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film.

I am uncompromising to the point of huge dissension in the studio. And it's served me very well. My theory and my philosophy is, 'Compromise breeds mediocrity.' Obviously, you have to pick your battles, and the more success an artist has, the more they want to be involved in their own career, which is not necessarily a good thing.

The struggle of making a film for any studio is the fact that the producers and the studio have an idea of what the movie should be, but that is especially the case when the director is being replaced three weeks before principal photography. The challenge for me was to make sure that was my version of 'The Wolfman.' And I've done that. I think.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

There comes a point, in any kind of, whether it's in your family discussions or business or whatever, where you finally have to get over the making of the points and now let's see if we can find common ground.

I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.

I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.

And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly.