Dries van Noten Quotes

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

Fashion is much more collaborative than one might think. You have to have an idea and vision, and you have to communicate that vision to a team of people, and you have to create an environment that allows those people to give the best that they can give.

Each of our collections is like a movie. We write the script, and this Sicilian woman who has traveled around the world plays the lead role.

A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.

I don't design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I'm not a designer. I'm a communicator.

The idea, as a director, is to be able to bring everybody on board and to inspire and give energy to everybody and to explain specific color, specific ambience. I need to be very precise, but I think I'm a better director when I'm more a channeler than a dictator.

Certainly as a director you want to be working with people who are on the same page as you and that you can trust and get along with.

I keep on having ideas and developments. Some happen and some don't, but I still always have a way of telling a story.

The inspiration really comes first from the character and the story. That vision of what the story is, and what the character is, the world that they inhabit and what the story wants to tell. That's really what inspires me.

As a director, you're only as good as your collaborators. You surround with collaborators that are going to understand what you're trying to do. Not only that, they're going to push and fight for what you're trying to do.

Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate.

If the vision is not right and if the right group of players is not together, it doesn't come together.

I don't want to lose an opportunity to tell an interesting story.

I don't believe in inspiration at all. We live in a world that demands explanation. And fiction has the capability to offer explanations for things.

I try to have a picture when I receive the ball and know where everyone is. That's one of the most important things for a midfielder.

I enjoy making plays for my teammates.

What makes a leader great is not the fact that she (or he) has all the answers, but the ability to inspire and empower us to find the answers.

The point is that filmmaking is a collaborative effort; it isn't about imposing your vision on other people. It's about the talking, you know?

I am really interested in storytelling in general - nothing is off-limits!

Animation is very much a team effort so you must be a team player.

Any story, any screenplay can only happen if the whole unit is professionally working towards it.

If you're singing, you're telling a story. So to tell it and tell it right, that's it.

With a movie, you have the power of putting out an idea about the world and for people to take it seriously.

I think I can contribute to the team in a multitude of ways.

After nine or 10 years of being interviewed, you start wanting to team up with the reporter and get the job done.