Geena Davis Quotes

I'm rarely in a situation where, if you have a good idea, it's not embraced. That's stupid. And I don't work with stupid people.

I love being around people that contribute. It doesn't matter where the good idea comes from. A good idea is a good idea.

Sometimes other people have better ideas.

We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better.

One of my philosophies as a director is to listen to other people's great ideas because they'll help make you better.

If you're a leader at any level and your people aren't challenging you, you've got to change that or you can't be a leader here because you're not going to be using ideas, you're not going to have innovation, you're not going to fully develop your people. And if you're working in a group and you don't challenge, then you're not really doing your job.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

I'm never worried about being upstaged. I love to have the best, most individual people come in and see if we hit on something.

Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate.

Organizations that can diminish fear are those that are able to motivate, create, and innovate.

In my view, it's irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

What I learned at LucasArts was, you don't make your bets on ideas: ideas are cheap. You make your bets on people.

A good head has one hundred hands.

I'm willing to fail, my producers are willing to fail, my crew is willing to fail.

I surround myself, not with yes men, but people who have their own ideas and are on board with with I want to do.

If you have got diversity on your board, then you are going to have new ideas come to the table.

I've learned how to trust someone else's ideas with mine.

Because when you work with a different team, the expectations are different and then you deliver in a very different way. You look back at it and you're proud of yourself. And when the same people come in and you do the same thing, it's boring. You could re-envision it again and again but when the new chemistry of ideas comes in, something happens as a team.

The best and most talented directors - and I think it goes for people too - are the most confident in giving room to their actors and trusting them.

On the 'X-Men' films, people are always throwing out ideas and trying to get the shot to look the best and make the most sense, and to get it done efficiently. Everybody collaborates and everybody is very open to new ideas.

I like the idea of collaboration - it pushes you. It's a richer experience.

The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.

Any kind of vision needs people.

The joy of being in the studio is having people being utterly free to throw out their ideas.