Work Boundaries Quotes

I think when you're done with work, you go home.

I don't look at my emails on the weekend or after 6 o'clock in the day.

I think it is possible to be friends with employees, but there has to be a respect level where you're not taken advantage of, either.

For a while it was hard for me to say no to work.

I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

When I get a job, I make phone calls to every single person I know and tell them not to bloody call me.

As the director, you cannot control what people do after hours or in their trailers or on break. Why would you want to? But you can't.

I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.

I'm not a social rider. Strictly professional.

One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.

Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf.

I've always been able to let stuff go when I'm done with work.

When I work, my first relationship with people is professional.

Don't think about work in your bedroom or relaxation area.

I like work/life separation, not work/life balance. What I mean by that is, if I'm on, I want to be on and maximally productive. If I'm off, I don't want to think about work. When people strive for work/life balance, they end up blending them. That's how you end up checking email all day Saturday.

I don't think guys in TV should stay when it's time to leave.

I try to leave my work at the door when I leave the set. It's almost like summer camp. You go in hard, then you leave, and it's done.

Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.'