Nina Jacobson Quotes

Directing is such a high. It's the hardest job ever, but I really love doing it.

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.

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

I follow the director's lead because they generally know more about the big picture, but I also trust that the director will give me enough freedom to play.

I think being able to have follow-through, I think a lot of people who are in charge, that is the one quality that you can't forsake. You can get opinions, but you can't have too many cooks in the kitchen when you're envisioning something.

You just have to connect with people who believe in your vision and who will work with you and advance your cause.

I aspire to be an instrument of the director. I'm happiest like that. The stronger the director, the more I'm willing to give them.

Directing is a constant test of your communicative powers. You're constantly trying to explain people your vision of what you want and steer these tiny little details into a cohesive thing.

I know it sounds earnest, but I do really feel in my bones that acting is just a small part of the equation when you are making a movie. The director really is in charge. Actors are as important or unimportant as the rest of the people around them.

It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

I'm an actress who likes a strong, communicative director.

All the directors that I've had the opportunity to work with are fantastic.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

You lead with direction, and you try to lead by example. I try to be there when things are not good and obviously share the spoils of success.

Part of the process of acting in a film that you're also directing is really trusting the people around you to capture your vision, which hopefully you have communicated well to them.

There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.

The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

Being a director, just to begin with, is just, I think, one of the hardest jobs just because you have to work in every way. You have to work with actors, you have to be involved with the producers and the writing and the action. Every department comes to you; you have to deal with everything.

I want to believe that those who have been appointed to accomplish this mission will be totally committed, devoting all their skills and determination to their work. I urge you to lend them your support so that, together, we can build that bright future worthy of our country.

I can't be everywhere, but I'm always in one of my kitchens, and hopefully I'm motivating and inspiring.

It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.

I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.