Mark Sheppard Quotes

FCA is a culture of leaders and employees that were born out of adversity and who operate without sheet music.

I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.

I think one of my strengths is that I can always take advice, and I can delegate. I know a lot of people feel the need to do everything themselves, but I am not one of them.

I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets.

You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

I had a lot of learning on my feet.

As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust that I and my team can come up with a solution.

I think teams really want to see how you respond picking up and grasping things and if you can make changes and regurgitate that information.

Good teams, whatever the circumstances or the atmosphere or the pitch, find a way of playing.

I think I'm going to improve a team the day I get there, honestly. I think I can be the guy who can play right away, the guy who can sit if I need to and learn.

That's one of my strengths, that I can adjust, and I can play with anyone.

I want to be a guy who helps the team a lot of different ways.

As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills.

In a crisis, the man worth his salt is the man who meets the needs of the situation in whatever way is necessary.

Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.

Every time I work on a new set, I take whatever I can from it and learn as much as I can around the people who I am working with.

If you're asked something on a movie set and you say 'I don't know,' you lose confidence in every department. What you need to say is 'I'll have that for you in five minutes.'

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

I think that I am willing to do anything. I like to collaborate. If my voice will be heard, than I will do some research and think about it.

I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style - the director, the actor I'm working with.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

When you face unexpected events, you have to try to overcome those problems, but at the same time, you have to continue working according to the plan that you defined since the beginning. So that's what we have tried to do - not to avoid the urgent responses but to continue the route that we had defined.

You learn to kid around and joke and not take things too seriously because somehow its all gonna work out for the best - or you're gonna make it work out.

It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that's really good.