I think something that every actor wants, whether they've done four movies or forty movies, is they want to find the work interesting. You want to come to work and think this is going to be a challenge.
Taika WaititiRead
I've been on a lot of film sets, and I've always promised myself I wouldn't create a set where people dread coming to work.
Interpretation
Creating a positive work environment is essential for productivity and morale.
Taika Waititi emphasizes the importance of fostering a welcoming and enjoyable atmosphere on film sets. His commitment to avoiding a workplace where people feel dread highlights the influence of leadership on team morale and how a supportive environment can enhance creativity and collaboration in the film industry.
In practice
In a team meeting focused on improving company culture.
I think something that every actor wants, whether they've done four movies or forty movies, is they want to find the work interesting. You want to come to work and think this is going to be a challenge.
If someone asked, 'What are your films like?,' the best I can come up with is that they're, like, a fine balance between comedy and drama. And they deal mainly with the clumsiness of humanity.
I'm not interested in doing work that doesn't captivate me.
People overcoming the odds is actually a really important part of humanity, and I don't think we kind of get to celebrate that as much as we should.
The stuff I'm passionate about is what I write; it isn't multi-million-dollar franchise movies.
I love films that make you feel something but also deliver that payload behind jokes.
If I can't get the captains to respond appropriately and show the leadership I expect, how is anyone else going to respond?
Leadership is the self-confidence of working with people smarter than you.
He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic citizen . . . should share with him. . . . Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.
I am now . . . on a subject, which fills me with inexpressible concern . . . . But as it has been a kind of destiny, that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose.
To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions.
When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.
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