Director
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Zimmer: Pursuing an artistic career is an act of insanity
“Waking up and say, I want to be an actor or a director or a musician or a fine artist or a poet or an author is an act of insanity. You know, the odds of being successful are extremely small. So you have to, I, to me, respecting that journey is really, really …”
Andreessen: AI will let creative professionals perform multiple Hollywood roles
“Each person in each of those three fields is going to be able to expand laterally and pick up those other, those additional skills. And then as a consequence, you're going to have more people Who can write and direct or write and act or direct and act or do al…”
Hastings: Netflix invites board directors to observe management meetings
“We ask directors to come to management meetings so they can watch what's going on, watch the sausage being made. Again, not so they're adding value, but so they're highly informed. And so we look for people who are wise in crisis.”
Evans: Advancing beyond Senior Manager requires shifting from execution to influence
“The difference between a senior manager and a director is kind of how you lead and the work you're doing. And you can get as far as senior manager by being really strong in your function and being really good at getting things done. As a director, it becomes m…”
Andreessen: Directors and actors are more threatened by AI than screenwriters
“Does the writer need the actor anymore? Like, if I were a director or actor, I'd be a lot more worried than the writers.”
Ovitz: TV packaging centers on producers while movie packaging centers on directors
“William Morris was the top television packaging agency, and we all knew how to package television, but it's very different than packaging movies, because in television, the producer is a key element, and in movies, it's the director.”
DuVernay: A film director operates like the mayor of a small town
“Yeah, I think of the CA, I think of the director as the mayor of a small town, because a film has every element of a small town. I mean, a fire department, a hospital, that's the medic, you know what I mean? There's some people working construction, there's so…”
In television the writer fires the director, unlike in feature films
“In film, we always say the director fires the writer, and in television, the writer fires the director. Like, and that's always been the way it's been.”
Andreessen: Conflict with proxy advisor ISS gets corporate board directors removed fastest
“ISS, which is the firm that advises a lot of the pension funds and index funds on how to vote their shares, because it's the fastest way to get booted out as a director.”
Andreessen: The board-management knowledge gap can never be fully closed
“You can never close it, because to be able to close the knowledge gap, the directors would have to be involved full-time in the company, which would, then they'd be executives and not directors.”