Quotes About Collaboration

You always have to figure out what the director is good at before you work with them; then you can fill in if need be.

I genuinely enjoy watching the full-back run up the pitch and going across to fill in.

The success of a film is always a combination of many people's efforts.

I have always thought we should think less about the British film industry as an entity, and more about getting British talent working.

When you're working on film music, you're only working on 20, 30-minute sections at a time.

Film music, over the years, has taken from everybody.

This is the best film school there is, just to make movies and be there on set.

I always try and learn as much as I can from different departments on a film set.

I'd be happy doing anything on a film set.

I learn from everybody on a film set.

On a film set, it's important to be good at your work, but it's also important to be a compassionate and understanding human being.

It's fun being on a film set full stop.

Scorsese has very defined ideas about how to shoot a scene, and he's an editor himself - we cut together. It means he's constantly thinking about my problems while he's filming.

Larry Kasdan wanted us all there, all the time, even if we weren't filming.

When you're supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you're talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you're filming.

Denis Villeneuve is such a wonderful filmmaker. I just feel nothing but grateful to have worked with him and to have a chance to learn his language of filming.

I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.

When you are in safe hands of a brilliant filmmaker and an ace co-actor, there is nothing to fear.

If you look at anybody who's had along career, if you look at the choices they've made - even if the movies haven't worked - they've always worked with great filmmakers.

I think as a filmmaker and as a director, you shortchange yourself if you inhibit the ability of your actor to bring their own personal experiences to the characters.

When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form.

I consider myself as a director's actor, so I'm open to work with filmmakers from across the country and even abroad.

The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.

The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather than the music.