Quotes About Mentorship

It's a generational thing. It'd be great if some kids grew up with me as that Jason Bourne figure.

Some of my conversations with Jay, I'm not really saying much, just listening. It's really just learning. I'm trying to have Jay Z's money.

I was working with Jay Z while I was still learning how to be who I was about to become.

I learned so much from listening to Jay-Z, M.O.P. and Gang Starr.

Jean Plaidy was the greatest influence on me.

Jeff Garlin is essentially my dad.

Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh.

I was Jazzy Jeff's assistant.

Jazzy Jeff is somebody who taught me what I really wanted to do for other people. He has the big ol' house where musicians can come there, stay for a while, create music, eat, reset.

When you look at the reasons people leave companies, it's usually because their boss is a jerk or because they aren't learning and growing.

You'll hear guys talk all the time about coaches being a father figure. Well I'm 45 years old and I've never met my father. I consider Jerry Tarkanian my father.

Friends who are directors like Jim Mangold or the Wachowskis or Zack Snyder - who, whether they know or not - have really left a mark on who I am as a director.

We aspire to be like Jim Harbaugh. No, seriously, he does a great job.

As long as there's young people, they can look to Jim to help them cut the umbilical chord.

I always felt gratified as a player when Jim Courier was captain, and I knew he had been in any possible scenario I might face on the court. It's amazing to sit with someone like him, and to draw confidence from what he says, or even just nothing.

If Jimmy Kimmel didn't hire me, I wouldn't have the kind of career I have. And I don't know what kind of career I have, but he changed my life.

The reality is that I spent years in the factories in Italy when I first set up Jimmy Choo. Today, everyone who has a job at Jimmy Choo, I've done their job - right down to the cleaner.

When I was younger, all my friends were older - John Ford, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant. I loved talking to those people.

I'm a huge fan of Joe Walsh and a big James Gang fan. A lot of what I know about playing the guitar I learned from listening to him.

When I think about the person who's been most in my ear, it's Joe Dumars.

Joe Mantegna is like my Los Angeles dad.

Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.

I want to be like Johnny Bach or Pete Carril or Tex.

Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.