Quotes About Ensemble

Producing isn't just making beats on a beat machine. It's bringing together these string players with this flute player and this singer, and telling them to all work in the key of C major... You bring these people together and let them all cook.

I like having a big band because it gives you more options. They can always not play and I can do the quiet stuff, but when we want to do the big arrangements, we can.

When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.

It's so important which musicians we choose for being in the orchestra.

'Big Love' was originally an ensemble song, but it's done now as a single guitar piece.

Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.

Shoes can change an outfit.

I love a gray-on-gray outfit.

I love my fashion, so I gotta have my outfits.

A lot of thought and effort goes into the outfits that I wear.

A lot of the shows I have done, I'm often the only black guy and I have often had to play second or third fiddle. It isn't necessarily a bad thing if it is a strong ensemble cast. But I feel people have overlooked my abilities.

You can wear whatever you want, just so long as you have on trouser, shoes, and a shirt.

You see, I don't understand why everyone thinks sports is the only way to learn about teamwork. I never played sports much, even as a kid. But I was in a band in high school and college, and I think I figured out the team thing from that.

Picture-taking is an ensemble art-like theater.

I see the Nimble Thief and the Man with Two Lives and the Blind Man, but I don't see the others. Where's the Dreadful Bear and the Knight Protector? The Horse Lord and the Bowman? And the ladies? Where are they—the Queen of the World and the Mother of the Race That Died?

The variable that really boosts your performance is the actors around you.

I work with different actors with varied degrees of experience.

That's very important when you're doing an ensemble piece, that you give it a variety of levels so it doesn't get too homogenous.

I was surprised I was nominated for an Oscar because 'Cocoon' was such an ensemble picture. But now I'm certain it wasn't only for 'Cocoon.' It was a lifetime award, so I accepted it in that vein, and it probably meant more from a recognition standpoint.

Pairing a sequin mini skirt with a velvet long sleeved bodysuit can never go wrong!

I love ensemble pieces, I love being a part of the entire tapestry of a piece, but I think character actors do have a lot more fun, and there's a versatility involved that's challenging and fun, to come up to speed and do what's required of you.

From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.

Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene.

I think when you work on a Woody Allen film the actors become a real company, probably more than on any other film.