Quotes About Collaboration

Frank Farian and me are the sound of Boney M.

I met Frank Farian and he asked if I would work with him on this project. And four to five months later, we had our first hit, 'Daddy Cool.'

Especially when I first really started to work with Kenneth and Franklin, who had been in space already. And so, they were able to talk about space and tell me a few things about how things would really happen.

Having been a fan of Frantic Assembly for many years I'm really looking forward to working with them as a co-director as it's something I've not done before.

That's one of the things I like about our business: our fraternity of coaches. As competitive as it is, guys find time to share when they can.

You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.

Film is a collaborative process, absolutely, but I am a control freak.

I'd love to collaborate with a writer, but I'm such a control freak, it might be difficult.

I've worked with Fred Upton, and I think we've got a lot of common agreement on energy production.

I loved Fred Astaire's way of dancing. He led you into the dance.

I like a set to be a happy place, where people can feel free to experiment.

I enjoyed playing with the guys in Free Spirit so much because they really dug into Free material, and I really liked how they expressed it. They have a lot of dynamics.

Twenty-seven member states cannot even organise a takeaway curry, let alone what they are going to do on free trade deals with the rest of the world.

I think when you work enough on your doing freelance stuff on other films, you start to feel what it feels like to work with people who are not totally on the same page as you.

Bigger-budgeted films have more restrictions and less freedom to create. Because of this, I try to find freedom in the people I work with. I often work in ways I don't want to. It's more about controlling the situation. Lower-budget films are freer.

There's something Vichy about the French.

I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.

I love to work with artists that were able to find a brand new name and create something really exciting and fresh.

With some actors, you can tell, just from their different backgrounds and their different approaches to working, they would have just a natural conflict, just a sort of friction.

To me, this is the perfect marriage. There's no friction. There's just, we have what they need, they have what we need. And so IBM is in the process, with our help, of designing many different apps for many different verticals.

My parents would watch movies like 'Big' and 'Freaky Friday,' and I wanted to see that kind of story told from an African-American angle. So I had the idea for 'Little,' and then I told my parents, and we all fleshed it out together.

I take everything out of the fridge and see what we can make. We talk about what we could possibly create, and if there is something on the turn that we could save, we chop it up and put it in the freezer.

Some of my colleagues I have the most differences with in decisions are ones with whom I have a very friendly relationship. You have to be able to step back and look at the issues and your colleagues.

I've done some stuff with Glenn Danzig before, and while I can't really say that we're friends, we're friendly acquaintances.