Quotes About Judgment

Whenever a film has three different release dates, people understandably assume that there must be something wrong with it.

We should release films without revealing the director's name, as his or her gender would not be a barometer to watch those films.

I don't know what draws me to my films. In hindsight, my choices turn out OK.

Hindsight is, of course, 20/20. Any time you go back, and you look at something, and now you've got the result of something, you say, 'Yeah, maybe it wasn't the right idea.'

With any possibly erroneous decision, you can always look back and think you could've done something differently - but always with the benefit of hindsight.

I just don't think many people would have crossed the street to hear me doing a hip hop-influenced album!

I know what I'm good at, and if I'm asked to do something I'm not - like hip-hop dancing - I get self-conscious.

You can call Hanson a whole lot of things, but hip-hop isn't one of them.

I hate the word 'hippy'. I hate a lot of people, and hippies don't do that!

I'm the type of employer who will hire based on personality, based on potential. If you put the resume before the personality, you're going to fail.

Employers, like most people, tend to trust their intuitions. But when employers decide whom to hire, they trust those intuitions far more than they should.

I sometimes think people hire me only for my eyes. If they could, they'd probably say, please leave your eyes on the set, we don't need the rest of you.

I've never really hired anybody that people thought I should hire.

At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.

My experience - I'll never know what happens behind closed doors or why I don't get hired for something, but I've never had an experience that made me feel any less than.

If you're even on the fence about hiring someone, that person is a no. You have to feel it in your gut.

When hiring, trust your feelings.

Our hiring is almost completely built around just going through someone's life story, and we look for moments when they had to make important decisions, and we go deep on those.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

If we look too closely at many historical figures, we won't like what we see.

Germany's historical responsibility will not expire. We want to live up to it - and you should judge us on it.

No one in Hollywood really knows what a good idea is before a movie hits the screens. We only know if it's a good idea after it's done.

Directors have good and bad movies. My father also made some flop movies, and he had bigger hits, too. That should not determine anything.

I feel like people often say I am not good at controlled shots or hitting it low, and I feel I'm very good at it, just don't need to use it as often.