Quotes About Collaboration

Part of what I love about producing is to get to work with writers.

The things I'm most excited about are projects I'm producing. But if a director I'd love to work with calls, I'm always game.

I joined Elton John's band in '75. He not only allowed me to play the electronic keyboard on his albums, he also let me do the orchestrations. Then I left the band and started producing records. I was not really a popular kind of hit music guy. I was attracted to more esoteric things.

I would like to continue producing films with Salman and associate with him again and again, if that is possible.

I think the most diverse group will produce the best product; I firmly believe that.

Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.

Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first.

When you work with people who are so passionate about their product it's kinda inspiring.

Good production is like a beautiful marriage. It makes a happy home.

There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.

Yes, I'm happy with Alan Ball's production of my novels.

And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on.

I've always been a big fan of Kendrick's, but it's different when you hear him on your own production.

I was fortunate to have my business partner of many years - Hemal Thakkar - who helped a great deal in production under our banner, Playtime Creation.

If you're a child, and you're on Broadway, you automatically know every other child in a production.

I think the most satisfying part about filmmaking is seeing a production in full bloom. When I write, I write in isolation.

It was nice working with a jolly team in 'Gangaa.' I was well-acquainted with the production team, which was same on 'Balika Vadhu.'

The production team's first meeting took place at my house. I had ideas and a color scheme in mind, how I wanted the movie to look, because that has to be a real collaboration.

But I also enjoy music outside the band. I've been doing production for other people, including Robert Wyatt. Check him out. The album we did together, 'Rock Bottom,' I think it's really lasted well. It's a 35-year-old album, but it worked.

DJ Sliink is amazing, and his production is on the next level. There are a lot of EDM producers that I'd like to work with, not for the sake of having an engineered record, but for the fact that I love their production and music.

If I do a play, it's my vision, and everybody else is working on the production to support that. If I do an opera, I feel like part of my job is to support that composer, to try and create something that allows the composer to do his or her best work. In movies, it's usually the director.

Doing gigs is great, but when you come together for a production in the theatre, that is something I have a lot of respect for.

I saw Derek Jacobi play Hamlet when I was 17, and he directed me as Hamlet when I was 27, and I directed him as Claudius in 'Hamlet' when I was 35, and I'm hoping we meet again in some other production of Hamlet before we both toddle off.

With 'Suffragette,' I was emboldened that there were so many women around me. We had a female writer, producers, production and costume designers.