Quotes on Keep It Simple

Over-coaching can be more harmful than under-coaching. Keep it simple!

What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.

On acting to daughter Isabella Rossellini: Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in.

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.