Quotes About Collaboration

Dealing with actors is incredibly complex because they oftentimes are like pieces of clay. They want to be told how you want it done. You have to then decide if you want to be the teller or if you want to give them agency.

I don't like to boss people around. I don't get motivated by telling people what to do, I don't take any pleasure in it. So I manage with curiosity, by asking questions.

When I first started rapping, one of my partners who kept telling me to do music, I had asked him who I should buy some beats from, and he said DJ Squeeky.

I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.

I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

Instead of me telling them what they need to work on, I wanted to hear from them what they needed to work on.

I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

I read stories aloud at every stage. I listen to my writer friends when they kindly offer criticism. I listen to my husband when he tells me something doesn't seem right. I have my mother's boyfriend, Loring Janes, read to make sure I get everything right with the machines and guns.

Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.

Whatever Kanye tells me, I just try to put it in my little machine and make the perfect solution for it. That's always our collab formula, and that's just how 'Gorgeous' came about.

The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fishbowl and tells you their point of view.

I fell in love with Alan Ayckbourn the day I met him and, starting with 'The Norman Conquests,' went on to do eight plays with him. He tells you just what you want to know and has a brilliant way of solving problems.

The fact that everything ever works perfectly together, anybody who tells you that is pulling your leg.

I enjoyed working with Vikram Kumar, as he is an amazing director who is full of ideas, and he tells me that he has different compartments in his brain in which he places different story ideas and works on them simultaneously.

I was intending not do any more telly and then I got talked into 'My Kitchen Rules,' which I did with Michael Caines.

Just like how you find players from different backgrounds in Indian cricket team, our Telugu industry is looking for talent, and it doesn't matter where it comes from.

I have done Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi movies, and each actor that I've worked with is different from the other.

In Telugu, there can be ten comedians in one film and everyone gets along, without feeling intimidated or marginalised.

I am open to working in all southern language - Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam.

I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend.

The reality is that no country's actions alone will create the impact required to limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius - we all need to be part of the solution.

I would write a scientific paper with the devil, if it was on high temperatures. The fellow's probably an authority.

One thing that I have thought ever since Temple of the Dog is that I would never say no to an interesting collaboration, and that's partly where Audioslave came from.