Steve James Quotes

I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best.

I try to find the right director who won't compromise his or anyone else's integrity, and yet be political enough to give the studio what they want, yet put up a fight to maintain that integrity.

I would never cheapen my relationships by talking about them.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Well, it's really important to be honest with the person that you're seeing.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.

I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.

Nobody engages in a film, regardless of what your job is in it, to make a bad one.

I personally believe in bringing your whole self to work and being open and transparent, even vulnerable. I believe that builds trust, loyalty, and a sense of belonging and passion.

If I see that everything the director does is motivated by trying to achieve the best, I can accept anything.

I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.

It makes it so much easier to work with people who you can implicitly trust.

Don't lie to your partner. Ultimately the expression on your face gives you away, and they feel betrayed by the lie. If this is the person you're going to be with - forever and ever, for better or worse - they will love you for all of your good and all of your bad. They'll love you for you. So open communication is key. I have no secrets and no skeletons in my closet with my husband, and I love that. I feel comfortable and at ease with myself when I'm around him. I love the woman that I've become with him.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

There are things that I canna tell you, at least not yet. And I'll ask nothing of ye that ye canna give me. But what I would ask of ye---when you do tell me something, let it be the truth. And I'll promise ye the same. We have nothing now between us, save---respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies. Do ye agree?

I love my relationship with Coach Vermeil because it is one of the few genuine relationships that I have.

The only people who make love all the time are liars.

When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation in the right place. Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he's got his heart in the right place.

For once I want to have a relationship outside the public eye.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

Real men know how to listen, and real men know how to be honest.

We've been working with the very best in the business. The studio really just let us alone to make the films.