Quotes About Direction

Let us not alter our course simply because it leads into a dark thicket of work.

I have at least one goal that I work toward each day. It's all about taking hold of the day rather than letting the day run you.

I've really just been free-floating and letting my path take me where it will, but you can't continue to do that if you want to elevate.

It's a kind of limbo, knowing what you want but not being quite sure how to go about doing it.

It's difficult to really assess what I've done right per say, but if I did have to point out, I'd say that I never really looked to have goals that will limit me. When one knows where he is going to or wants to end up, he/she actually doesn't realise that the goal is more limiting, than liberating.

There's kind of a limitless amount of things I want to do, and when the path seems to open, that's when I try to do a thing.

My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself.

When you're doing a film, people are always telling you exactly what to do. Literally, your own decisions are taken away from you.

As a little kid, you go where your parents drag you. You have no agency, no dominion.

I've got a long-term plan.

America needs a long-term vision.

One day, I just hit a point where I was like, 'What am I going to do with my life, with my career?' I have all of these little things going on, but what am I going to really do? And for me, I saw longevity in acting.

I am 74 now. Looking back, I have a sense of not really being in control of my career. I just went where it took me.

The lovely thing about the writing life is that you can point it in any direction.

Luckily, as a director I can just tell people what I need and I don't need to tell them how to get it.

If a man can't manage his own life, he can't manage a business.

The main thing I wanted was to manage.

Ultimately, I want to direct a movie, so that's another thing, too, where I wonder what that will look like and how will I be able to manage.

To manage is to decide the team, the substitutions, and everything until the end.

Look first at management. That's the key to a company.

Good management has helped me find much of the success I've got.

Management always has a big influence on your success, no matter how good or how bad the business is itself.

I should have just become a manager.

That is something a lot of managers want to do - they bring their own people and do everything their own way.