Quotes About Collaboration

I wouldn't feel good about it at all. At the end of the day I'm here to win a team prize, and that's to win a championship, not an individual prize.

When you compete with good people, it makes everybody better.

I learned how to make a documentary by having a good team around me. My editors (and co-writers)Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Frédéric Tcheng were very helpful.

You want diversity in any intellectual organization. I mean, that's how good ideas arise.

I think that you always learn something from working with good actors.

Being an actor is often very tedious, which is why it helps hugely if your fellow cast members are also good friends.

I'd rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don't really care for.

Anything you do as a group is fraught with compromise... But everyone 's got to do that, right? It's part of being a good parent, or a good boyfriend, whatever.

I have a really good relationship with a lot of designers. I like Gaultier, Billionaire and Cavalli.

It's a simple fact: no individual can be good at everything. Everyone needs people around them who have complimentary sets of skills.

When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him.

I've really had good luck working with younger actors. Every younger actor that I have worked with has always been really on top of their game and fascinating to watch.

I do think it's a very good way to describe what a great actor does. You're both acknowledging the authority of the director and the necessity of the actor to push back and find their own voice.

Trust is everything between two artists, or between subject and artist. You have to have trust or nothing good will come out of it.

I think I've been able to be in some really good projects with some really good people.

A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.

If you feel like you're working with good people, you give them your humanity and just let it happen.

We started thinking if we can have more people involved instead of less people involved, wouldn't that be a good thing?

A generation ago, the image was that you had to trample everyone else down to succeed; but I don't believe that makes good business sense.

When you're working with really good actors, it raises your own game and you get better.

The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.

One of the keys to focus, and why I said cofounders that aren't friends really struggle, is that you can't be focused without good communication.

I never thought I'd be working with Sam [L.Jackson] .That's about as good as it gets.

I think the mark of a good director is that they surround themselves with good people.