Quotes About Execution

When I went to Beijing, my goal was to do the best with every shot. The outcome was not important, the process was.

Processes break in two ways. They break because they don't have the right checks and balances and because they don't have the right execution.

We did a year of Uber in San Francisco before we went to a second city. You get those processes down, then you really get started.

If we focus on processes, the results will automatically take care of themselves.

The thing about live TV is that it simply has to be done, there's no space for procrastination.

You don't get results by focusing on results. You get results by focusing on the actions that produce results.

I'd like to direct some, act in some of them, and produce.

The producer should decide what kind of music is being made, what it's going to sound like - all of it: the why, when, and how.

If no producer, no movie.

I can only go with my gut and say what I would like to do, and then my producer comes in and makes it happen.

I guess I'm a good manager now. Moreover, I'm loving the concept of donning the producer's hat. It's all very exciting as well as a great learning experience. You're a part of a film right from its conception to its execution, and that's an amazing feeling.

When we're shooting, I'm in producer mode.

A producer gets the whole vision done from top to bottom, to making the record to having the record delivered to the world. That's a producer.

There's a difference between a beatmaker and a producer.

When you're producing, you're really just making a series of decisions.

The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.

You just want to put the ball in play, whether I want to throw it downfield and it's not there, so I check it down, and it's a productive play and let the running back get a first down. Just keep the chains moving.

You've got to just be productive, do what you need to do on the court whether its ball movement, isolation, whatever type of system you're in, and do the best that you can do.

A lot of different things go into calling the run game - especially at the line of scrimmage.

Rebounding in practice and rebounding in games are two completely different things.

Every manager has his own ideas and different ways of doing things.

If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks. You need the script. I could build the house, but I have to know how.

Directing is so dope to me, man, 'cause it doesn't necessarily have to be your material. You're making someone else's material come to life. There's something amazing about that.

Directing films is easier said than done. The job needs a lot of sensibility to put many things in place.