Quotes About Guidance

Sometimes I just have to follow my intuition.

I think back story can help guide your choices, but when you're playing a scene, you're not making choices; you're just intuitive.

Coaches give you too much information. I've been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.

Just having more days of being the director on the ground, that's been invaluable.

To have a director's direct feedback is invaluable.

My mother has been in films for 50 years. She is very insightful. She has been invaluable to me in choosing films and other routine things.

We're guided by consumer data, and it helps give us the confidence to invest where the consumer is going.

I realize I got to where I am because people took the time to invest in me and make sacrifices and hopefully I can pay that forward and try to my part to help somebody else.

Writer/directors are, for me, the most inspiring people to work for because they are the person on set that knows the answer to all the questions. They have the most invested in the project because they've been with it from conception.

Well, I was lucky to have people throughout my life who invested in me.

The important thing in investing is to be true to your compass.

I don't give investment advice.

I'm not too involved in day-to-day matters. I only supervise at the board level.

You've got to be actively involved in the process yourself and you've got to listen carefully to what the coach is saying, take that on board yourself and implement what the coach is saying.

Putting out a debut album is a bit scary - I want it to be just right, so I took some extra time to finish it. Eminem's increased involvement has been such a blessing; I'm getting guidance from an artist I really admire and trust.

When you're making a decision that involves your children a certain amount of clarity comes with it.

Parents who've not had an education themselves find it hard to explain to their children what a decent education involves, and I completely understand that. Parents themselves need to be educated by schools about what sort of education they should expect for their children. I do think there's a heavy responsibility of the school.

I'm just an old Irish guy who believes if you have children, you need to be there to raise them.

If you are irresponsible as a parent and don't know what your kids are watching, that's your problem. It's not the creator's duty to create every show in a way that a six-year-old can watch it.

I don't just issue instructions. I follow up to see if they have been obeyed.

My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.

If I can inspire someone or help somebody to deal with their issues and their sexuality, then I'm here for it.

I have great coaches, but one thing I've never really had is that head coach - a Greg Jackson, Matt Hume, John Hackleman.

Boys need fathers, and you can't do that in jail.