Quotes About Collaboration

I do a lot of brainstorming with my editors.

I'm very lucky in that my agent and my editors know better. They don't push me. Because I don't take that well.

As an actor, you can go in, and you give your best performance, but if you hand that performance to ten different directors and ten different editors, you get ten different movies.

Teachers alone can't educate young people.

It's just really efficient to work with a person who can do everything in the studio.

To work for the team and for the success of the team. That is more important than one ego.

The rules are: The only ego is the film, and you have to serve the film.

I will never put my ego before the team. I have never done and will never do so.

There's no egos, we just want the best show we can put on. That started with NXT and that continues.

For a double act to work, you shouldn't have egos.

My job is to keep everyone together, strong big egos, and keep the peace in the family.

The Lovemongers came together because we felt kind of overinflated by the end of the Eighties.

I have acted with Rajinikanth as his elder brother in 'Uttar Dakshin,' and since then, we have been close.

The challenge of the Republican Party is, if we're going to start winning national elections, we've got to get along as all kinds of Republicans.

It's always nice working with friends. And if you have a director that you've worked with before, you don't have to go through that first learning thing. There's an element of trust there.

As I've gotten older, I've realized the element that sounds like The Gaslight Anthem that's mine is always going to be me. The other three-fourths of it is going to be the other guys. I can't stop doing what I do naturally, whether I'm in The Gaslight Anthem or my own thing.

The thing I learned from watching Iain Glen and Brendan Gleeson, and Aidan Gillen and Michael Fassbender when I worked with them, there's a huge element of leading something. It's the atmosphere and dynamic you're creating on set.

There are some millennial artists that I totally get and understand, and I know what they're talking about. People who I've worked with and who I'd like to work with. But there's a whole element of artists that I can't explain what they're talking about.

In general, I feel like when I've associated with someone, the association has elevated me and perhaps lowered the other person.

As a director, it just makes my life fantastic to work with people like Elizabeth Hawthorne.

Every time you work with a new co-star, a whole new dynamic emerges.

When we stand united we will emerge stronger as a state.

I'm not saying I only want to work with female directors. But I want to continue to work with emerging female directors.

And I would like to work with Eminem. Because I've always been a fan of his work.