#executive

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#assigned #branch #doctrine #executive #exercises

In the fall of the year 2000, there just happened to be a decision point when they asked me to become Chief Executive Officer of the company. It was a time when, as you remember, we were starting to have some real problems in the California energy markets. ↗

— Jeffrey Skilling

#become #california #chief #chief executive #company

Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece. ↗

— Maurice Jarre

#assumes #bad #become #change #executive

Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it. ↗

— David E. Kelley

#chemistry #executive #executive producer #hope #just

I find it quite difficult on studio films because there are so many different executives and things like that that you have to go through, so very often getting that definitive opinion is actually quite difficult. ↗

— Keira Knightley

#because #definitive #different #difficult #executives

So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I had met every head of studio, every executive and a lot of producers. I started finding things, little crumbs off other people's tables that I would make my own. ↗

— Rupert Sanders

#developing #every #executive #finding #had

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#arise #because #body #enact #execute

The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour. ↗

— Gloria Swanson

#boulevard #executives #me #paramount #pleased

I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#executives #good #got #handshake #hollywood

But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes. ↗

— Griffin Dunne

#any #before #cut #director #easier