Get the screens out of your room and surround yourself with books.

How do you make it to the top when all you have is ambition and talent? You believe in yourself and surround yourself with other idealistic and talented friends that fuel each other and push against the establishment to take you seriously.

It's vital to understand where you may have gaps in your knowledge or experience and to surround yourself with a team that complements that.

I think you are a product of the environment you surround yourself in, and everything you've experienced is a part of you and the fabric you are in.

I think you are a product of the environment you surround yourself in, and everything you've experienced is a part of you and the fabric you are in.

You are who you surround yourself with. I know that's such a cliche quote, but it's true.

I would advise any 17-year-old to surround yourself with people who listen to you, nod when you speak, and smile when you enter spaces.

Nothing bad can happen if you train your butt off and make the right decisions and surround yourself with the right people.

Your movie becomes much more narrow-minded when you have like-minded department heads. Whereas if you can surround yourself with people who have been a mother before, been a grandmother before, you get a much broader and wide-reaching swath of human emotions.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.

You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.

It's very important to surround yourself with people you can learn from.

When you surround yourself with some of the best in the business you can only get better.

Surround yourself with good people. People who are going to be honest with you and look out for your best interests.

Your movie becomes much more narrow-minded when you have like-minded department heads. Whereas if you can surround yourself with people who have been a mother before, been a grandmother before, you get a much broader and wide-reaching swath of human emotions.

When you surround yourself with the wrong people it's going to backfire every time.

When you surround yourself with like-minded athletes who are all going through the same thing as you, it gives you more drive and strength to get through those moments when you don't want to do it any more, when you think it's hard.

The only advice I can give is to surround yourself with people who are friends and people who believe in you and your material and who are going to help you take it to the next level. It doesn't mean you don't listen to criticism, but you listen to it and edit it, and you figure out what you can take.

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.

I had done it all in my career. I always felt, as a kid, that that's what a director needed to be. Hitchcock could do anything in my mind. He's the director. That person has to be the best actor, the best designer, the best cinematographer. Then I came to realize that isn't the case. You just need to surround yourself with the best.