Quotes About Collaboration

I think being collaborative is definitely more natural for people who are minorities in any sense - so people who aren't, like, white male artists - because we don't have the privilege to create art and work alone, usually.

Elizabeth Moss may very well be one of the best actresses I've had the privilege of standing opposite and sharing lines with.

Umrika' was one of the most wonderful collaborations I had the privilege of being a part of.

There's a kind of intimacy that can happen between musicians, and if they're people you enjoy and respect as humans, that intimacy is a real privilege.

Our idea is to make the U.K. a privileged partner of the E.U.

We're very privileged to collaborate with people to keep ourselves fresh and it gives us a shot in the arm to do things a different way.

I have said a lot of 'yeses' to lots of first-time film-makers. Lots, lots, lots. I admire them a lot, I respect them a lot. It is of greatest pride to be working with someone's first film - like being given a Nobel Prize or an Oscar.

I had the privilege of knowing and working with Norman Borlaug - who has been aptly described by the Nobel Peace Prize Committee as the greatest hunger fighter of our time - for nearly 50 years.

If the team is doing well, there are more chances to win individual prizes.

Building community coalitions with pro-life groups and pro-business groups takes time.

I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.

If Ferrari wanted me, they would have approached me. I want to work with people who want me. If they don't want me, it is no problem.

I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog.

Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on a more local level end up being more adaptive and resilient because there are more minds involved in the problem.

It's a very different thing when you're creating the world as opposed to when you're just part of the world. I love the detail of it, the problem-solving of it, and I love working with actors.

Design is an iterative process. One idea often builds on another.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.

I definitely enjoy working with people who can do their thing but also allow me to do my thing, you know? Who respect the process.

The ability to work every day was a big part of L.A.'s effect on my process and the band coming out from Philly once a month.

The great thing about the animation process is that is goes from, I write the lines, it goes to the actors, the actors bring a whole world to that, they bring the characters to life, then it goes to the animators, then it goes to the editor who cuts it together, and then you screen it and it goes back through the system again.

I'm not the kind of director who imposes his processes on everybody else.

Actors have their own processes, and if you want to be respectful of their process, you've got to communicate with them in the language of their process, and keeping that all straight is a little bit of a head-scratcher.

Two directors always come with two thought processes.