Quotes About Authority

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

Back then, it was more or less we couldn't change a line in our script. We weren't allowed to change lines. Today, actors change everything and won't do parts. It's very different today. Back then, the producers were in charge. Today actors are more in charge.

I don't want to be labeled as just a producer. Producers have little control and they get little respect. And I'm a man of respect.

Rewarding law breakers produces more law breakers.

Producing isn't my favourite bit about what I do, but the fact that I know how to do it gives me this sense of power in situations that are super male-dominated.

By giving the FDA adequate resources and authority to both prevent outbreaks and intervene once they appear, we can support the administration's efforts to reassure the parents of America that the food they feed their children is the product of the safest system in the world.

When a director is also a writer, everyone on the production looks to him, knowing he gave birth to the idea. There's a different level of viability.

HartBeat Productions is a company established by me; it's mine. I run it. I have employees.

They politics like ours profess, the greater prey upon the less.

I think if I had to choose another profession, I'd like to be a judge because I'm very capable of determining what's right and what's not.

The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.

I don't court controversies, but when I state facts, which are hard to digest for male-dominated authorities, they call them squabble.

Rupert Murdoch has been around since the dinosaurs. He knows how to get around any independent board - as he did with me, and as he's done with other editors as well.

I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

Every actor wants to direct.

I don't want to be a director. I want to direct. There's a difference.

When I'm acting, I'm a woman but when I am directing, I am an animal because I am very demanding.

I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine.

Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people.

I work directly for the boss. I listen to everybody, but I have one man whose voice is louder than everybody else's.

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.

Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.