Quotes About Collaboration

A lot of times, directors don't know how to speak to actors, or writers don't know how to communicate.

Actors know how to talk to other actors in a way that sometimes other directors just don't.

There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.

I get to meet different directors and different people.

Most actors are pretty adaptable because we work with so many directors.

David Ayer is one of the best directors I've ever worked with. He's a true man's man.

As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborate with other directors that much.

I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.

I think all the actors I've worked with knew that I was an actor. Like, I get into the dirt with my actors and we figure out the rhythm of the scene and how it needs to sound and what the blocking is, the way you would with another actor.

There's been no two Dirty Projectors records that have had the same cast of characters every time.

The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.

People have said for years 'never work with children or animals' but I couldn't disagree more.

If you are willing to listen and if you are willing to sit around the table, sometimes especially with the people who you think you disagree with the most, it is still really possible to get things done.

I believe when you're communicating with any player, you're going to have some disagreements.

A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.

Some people you work on a film with, and then they disappear.

We all like each other. I know people ask us that, and I hate to disappoint them, but we get along great and we enjoy playing with one another, and what can I say? I'm as surprised as anyone else.

I'm always disappointed by women who say they prefer working with men. What is that all about? I love working with women, I love the company of women.

To do things that are as complicated and challenging as spaceflight, you have to have all disciplines represented to get the job done.

I admire people who can spend every aspect of their life in one discipline and really go all the way. I feel the only way I could achieve some type of excellence is if I connect to other people, other disciplines.

Sometimes when you have a disconnect within your team, there's no way you can win.

Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn't have full charge of making the film, and sometimes there'd be battles of egos.

A big part of engaging kids in science is not getting the single, correct answer; it's being willing to work with students to discover the correct answer.

I love working with actors who will just go, 'Oh O.K., let's try it and see where it goes,' and 'Let's see what we can discover.'