Quotes About Collaboration

There's a few people that I write with that we don't stop until one of us cries.

In the world of book writing, there's a few people, maybe, where you have close relationships. In TV, there are so many more relationships, and they're all so critical.

I have been lucky with the people that I've worked with - and I have worked with very few people.

There are very few people, like Mukesh and Mahesh Bhatt, Bhushan Kumar, and even Yash Chopra, with whom I have worked, who understand music.

M. Night Shyamalan can draw quite a few people to quite a few things, and having the opportunity to work with him is very cool.

It is not always important that you have dialogues. How you present your role depends on the director and the cameraman; the actor also has few things to do.

If directors, actors and writers have the ability to drop their alpha-male egos, you will always get better work. In terms of my own demands, I actually want fewer lines. If I can lose a line and do it with my face, I'd rather do that.

Democratic foursomes don't work in the '70s like they did in the '60s, when there were fewer musical directions.

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.

We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.

Inside a company, you can mandate that everyone use the same technology, which means you can go a little bit, I don't know, higher fidelity than the lowest common denominator technology.

I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.

I feel that one of the fields that I need to learn a lot is screenwriting. I used to write my own screenplays, but it's just that I remember that at that time, I was saying to myself, 'I wish one day I will meet a screenwriter that will help me because I feel that I need to learn.'

As a batting captain, you do have to earn bowlers' trust, especially when it comes to fields.

Something that means a lot to me is when people from other fields are inspired by what we're doing.

Football itself is a great sport with which we are proud to be associated. We want to be proud to be associated with FIFA and hope and look forward to working with them to that end.

Fighters no longer manage themselves: they have a whole team behind them. A fighter has a manager, an agent, a Hollywood agent - they got this and that. And on top of that, they've got their whole team of coaches.

We win and lose as a team; we need to stay together, keep fighting and keep working for each other.

We manage to bounce ideas off one another. Every band fights, but at the end of the day, we're very positive about the way we fight. At least we come out with a result.

I love working with a set designer because, in many respects, you meet the set designer before you meet the actors. So it's a chance for me as a director to figure out what I'm thinking and to explore how the space is going to actually be activated.

I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to be - something where I don't feel compromised.

It's not all about the figures. It's about how you play for the team, how you help your colleagues, how you work defensively.

It's a cliche but I would rather be involved in a winning team than have good figures.

We were really into what Cliff Martinez did with 'Drive;' we were into what Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross were doing with David Fincher. When I read about how they worked with David Fincher, they're composing hours and hours of music and then he's working and figuring it out.