Quotes About Mentorship

A father figure is setting the blueprint, the model, the standard, the way for you to become a man and take on the world for yourself.

As fathers, we all have great lessons to teach our children.

The first director who ever allowed me to shoot a film for him was a male. He was a gay male. My first feature also came from him. I worked for a lot of dudes at NYU.

I think it's important for me to share my experiences with the younger players and give them feedback on their performances.

I met Draymond when he was about nine years old. We talked about basketball. It just making me feel good just knowing that he actually listened and he applied everything I talked about to basketball.

Rahul's my elder brother and I feel good to have someone in the industry who has helped me out.

One of the most enjoyable parts of the job is seeing a young fella who you give a debut to or you buy and see them progress.

I feel that one of the fields that I need to learn a lot is screenwriting. I used to write my own screenplays, but it's just that I remember that at that time, I was saying to myself, 'I wish one day I will meet a screenwriter that will help me because I feel that I need to learn.'

My coach never looked at me as a female fighter, but just as a fighter, as someone he was training. I had to work just as hard as the guys, or harder than them.

I'm not surprised to be the coach on 'The Ultimate Fighter.'

My father didn't make us fighters, he made us teachers.

The Marine Corps was the first father figure I had ever known.

Mark O'Toole from the FAI has looked after me well back in England to the point that I consider him a father figure.

I've always respected the authority figures in my life, including my coaches.

But I think sometimes, coaching less is better. That's the art of coaching, figuring out with each kid what is the right way to approach it?

It's very difficult to fill the shoes of somebody like Rahul Bhai. He has set the bench mark for a generation to come. However, it's our responsibility to carry forward his legacy.

I loved David Lean, he had a huge influence on me when I was going to film school.

I love that first-time feeling that I can't build in myself anymore, where I can learn and emulate other filmmakers. Be it Ayan Mukherjee, Punit Mahotra, Karan Malhotra, Tarun Mansukhani or Shakun Batra, all of them have taught me something or the other.

If I hadn't met Scorsese, I would never have become a filmmaker. He has taught me everything I know about editing and has given me the best job in the world.

Aamir Khan in a sense, was my first teacher for filmmaking. He used to answer my doubts on the sets of 'Joh Jeeta Wahi Sikander.'

When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.

Israel Adesanya will not be Eugene Bareman's final UFC champion.

It's about finding great artists and being part of their careers.

I was never given any hand-outs. I started at the bottom and was very good at finding people who knew more than me and learning from them.