Quotes About Collaboration

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.

Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people.

I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.

But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.

A good friend knows all your stories. A best friend helped you write them.

I think a good director is a good listener.

I've always been clever enough to surround myself with the best in whatever field I'm working in... Good people make you look good.

Peter Bogdanovich is a good friend.

My personality is very good for nurturing. I'm very empathetic to my artists. You speak to anyone who's worked with me and they'll say, "Oh yeah, Steve's great. He doesn't have the ego."

Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.

A good leader needs to know how to follow.

Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane.

When somebody who is different shows himself to be different in a good way, that's how development happens.

I always end up working with people that do a really good job, so I'm the only one that I'm worried about disappointing me, not the musicians ever.

What makes me feel good is that after all these years, the ideas that Joe Perry came up with worked and all the kids loved it.

I want to be a good person, and a person that people enjoy working with, 'cause I certainly enjoy working with other people.

We're very good friends, we have a very honest relationship. He keeps me honest, I keep him honest. He's an incredible actor and when you have an actor like Denzel action becomes drama.

Good people equals good management and good management equals good people.

It's my job to make him look good. He's a very good looking man, so it's my job to keep him looking good.

Of course, you have to have a good reputation, especially as an artist, as a musician, so that other musicians would like to play with you.

It's exciting to be with really, really good people. Some people make you feel like you've got to up your game. Working with good people is always good.

I've learned, having been on a lot of sets, the good news is that by definition you are surrounded by experts. They get fired if they're not - unlike in the theatre!