Quotes About Decision-making

If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy.

But I think the credit has to go to Geddy... he spent a lot of time in the studio with Paul, I think he needed that kind of focus to be in there to be a part of the whole thing, and for the most part he made all the major decisions.

I find it quite difficult on studio films because there are so many different executives and things like that that you have to go through, so very often getting that definitive opinion is actually quite difficult.

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.

But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes.

Most films I work on, the people making the film are constantly second-guessing the executives of the studio, the producer, and the audience. It is very hard to accomplish anything in that situation.

I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do.

In the old days the studios guided your career. Now it's all up to you.

I don't think I'll ever be a producer who's into taking the meetings and fighting the big fights with studios. I really don't like that part. I'm much more interested in the material.

You're fighting a losing battle if you expect the people who own the studios to make moral choices.

A failure to act is a terrible, stunning legacy for any leader. But far worse when it is the president of the United States. And that's the point driven home by Romney's selection of Ryan, who dared to lead when Obama did not.

I'm very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun, and I like doing stupid things. At the same time, I'm like a 35-year-old. I have a house. I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.

There's nothing balanced about the 50 percent run, 50 percent pass because that's 50 percent stupid.

Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle.

One person is never as stupid as a group of people. That's why they have lynch mobs, not lynch individuals.

I guess if you're stupid enough to join the army without thinking about getting shot at, then you really are a fool.

I'm not going to put my energy into dunking every time I get the ball. That's stupid.

Stupid is a great force in human affairs.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

As you get larger, it is harder to have focused discussions. Because one of the things I've learned about Congress over the past four years that I've been in is there's no shortage of opinions about how things should be done on any particular subject.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

It's neither appropriate nor responsible if I drastically amend a policy after one, two, or three submissions of opinion.

We have collectively to face up to the fact that in the two main political parties there are substantial disagreements on the best form Brexit should take.

I am in the process of trying to decide whether I can make a substantive and productive contribution to the policy-making process. I was always there because I wanted to work on the pressing issues of the day - I'm interested in energy, I'm interested in the climate bill and technology policy.