My philosophy is to always find the smartest people you can. Hire people smarter than you.
Try to produce your own films, avoid directing for hire.
The truly great actors, like Charlize Theron, are just like, "I'm an actor. For hire. I show up, I do my job. " There's no "I'm just waiting for the inspiration. " They just do their jobs. They say, "Let's go over the scene a few times and get it. "
You go in thinking you have to do this all by yourself, and what I learned was no, when you hire great people, they do so much for you.
The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.
Lawyers are men whom we hire to protect us from lawyers.
Hire slowly and fire fast.
Organizational culture begins in HR. This means to hire for attitude and train for skill.
You can't always hire great service providers, but you can create them.
I don't ask employers, for example, to like blacks or Jews or native people; I ask employers to hire the qualified members of thesegroups whether they likethem or not.
The idea is: You played to 100 people this week in Europe, and then next week you can play to 200. It's an investment in that territory. But it can lose money because it's very expensive to go to Europe. You can't really just say, like, "Oh, we're gonna take our van and drive to California tomorrow. " It's more like, "Oh, we have to fly to London and rent three guitar amps, a bass amp, drums; buy all these flights for four people; hire a driver. "
At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river.
The biggest PR hack you can do, is not hire a PR firm.
It's really important for actors to feel that they're more than something for hire.
You're only as good as the people you hire.
Am I missing something because of my lack of education? Being an intellectual - I'm not. So I hire him as a corner man, like a boxer; he watches me and tells me what I do wrong before I go in for the next round. Barry thought he was going to write what became Executioner's Song, and I told him he wasn't going to. And Barry's closest friend was Joan Didion.
The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.
Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else.
If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers.
There might be people out there who wouldn't hire me because they thought I should keep my mouth shut, but I'm not aware of that. Even if I saw evidence of that, it wouldn't really concern me.