Before going to the director's interview, I'd like to introduce a book "Good to Great" by Jim Collins. So far, this is the best book I've read this year. In this book, the author mentions a Hedgehog Concept as one of the key factors for trasforming a good company to a great company.
A Hedgehog Concept is "a simple, crystalline concept that flows from deep understanding about the intersection of the following three circles."
Three Circles are
1. What you can be the best in the world at.
(and, equally important, what you cannot be the bet in the world at)
2. What drives your economic engine.
(cash flow per X in the social sector)
3. What you are deeply passionate about.
(The idea here is not to stimulate passion but to DISCOVER what
makes you passionate.)
I've been very curious about what make a difference between great filmmakers and good filmmakers. So, I'd like to try to apply these three circle to Robert Zemeckis. (I won't be able to fill all circles...)
1. I wasn't able to find the exact phrase of what he thinks he can be
best at.
"If I just keep making movies that I want to see, and that I think somebody else wants to see -- and those are the two questions that I ask myself, because I don't want to be suicidal. [...] if the answer to those two questions is, "yes" then you may as well make the movie."
2. N/A
3. I certainly found this one.
"I won an Academy award when I was 44 years old, but I paid for it with my 20s. That decade of my life from film school till 30 was nothing but work, nothing but absolute, driving work. I had no money. I had no life. I was just devouring movies and writing screen plays. I look at my good friends who are my same age and they're not as successful as I am, but I look back and I think, "They were living very exciting lives as bachelors in their 20s. They were pulling down some pretty good money." But they weren't driven and obsessed with becoming film directors."
"Hard working pays off at the end" may sound too common... For those, I'd like to end this note with a comment of Carl Reichardt, CEO of Wells Fargo at the time of transition.
"What we did was so simple, and we kept it simple. It was so straightforward and obvious that it sounds almost ridiculous to talk about it."
Interivew from http://www.achievement.org
Thanks
Shin
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