Quotes About Communication

I'm not the greatest reader. I feel like I have a bit of dyslexia or something, and that's probably why I became a filmmaker. I have the need to communicate, the need to tell stories; and the need to understand stories led me to movies.

I'm not a writer, although, as a filmmaker, you are an author in a certain way.

As a filmmaker, I'm a collaborator first.

As a filmmaker, you want people to understand and get what you do, and it's a lot to ask for.

We make movies to endorse our own personal feelings. I am not, in fact, a documentary filmmaker. I've got my personal beliefs, and I'm ready to put them out on the table.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.

When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.

Filmmaking is all about people management.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is all about telling stories, and I'm just doing my part.

I don't like to filter myself, but I do it for PR's sake.

I remember there being a period of time when I had a baby, and I was so sleep-deprived that I'd get into having no filter, and that was not good.

This whole blogging stuff has been bugging me for years. Talk about no filter on things. People feel free to do and say whatever they want with no vetting, with no editing, with nothing.

Share your personality with interviewers, but keep a professional filter safely adhered to it.

People have told me I've got no filter or I'm a bit of an over-sharer.

All the big clubs set their goals. We have to do that because it is necessary to explain to the fans. But this does not mean I am thinking only of the final results. The work you are doing every day with the team is often more important.

I think I'm a good dad. It's hard. Ultimately, it's our kids that have the final word. So we'll have to ask them.

To chase an athlete that really doesn't want to speak with you and when you finally get him, gives you three words and you have to write a story based on three words of information he gave you, that's pretty tough.

Happy families do have certain things in common. Today we finally have the knowledge to know what those things are.

There's an awful lot of us who don't quite speak finance, speak money.

If you're comfortable with what you have and who you are, you'll automatically be more comfortable talking about your finances.

I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.

You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I'm in that moment now where I'm finding the world's voice.