Quotes About Collaboration

Most wars between individuals are of the 'cold' rather than the 'hot' variety---lingering resentment, for example, grudges long held, resources clutched rather than shared, help not offered. These are the acts of war that most threaten our homes and workplaces.

Working with David Gordon Green, and Jonah Hill, and Michael Cera, and Drew Barrymore, and all of those people - those are the best people in comedy to work with. Anna Faris. You know, that's my goal, to keep learning and to just keep working with the best people I can. And yeah, we do all hang out, and we all kind of know each other.

Imagine how our culture, how our lives, will change when we begin valuing go-givers as much as we value go-getters.

Every commonwealth being, as we have said, a partnership, it follows, that in every commonwealth men must be partners in some things or in all. Some things they must possess in common, since the community could not otherwise subsist.

In proportion as labor is divided, arts are perfected.

I am first and foremost a catalist; I put people and situations together.

Tenochtitlán y Texcoco aportarían guerreros y estrategas, mientras que la humilde Tacuba proporcionaría cargadores y tortillas

I feel fortunate. I've really gotten to work with amazing talented people, and to learn from them, which is why I'm doing this. If I can work with the best director I'm going to do it.

A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.

I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book.

It's very important for actors to feel like a part of the puzzle and not the puzzle itself.

Putting together a hit record is like putting together a puzzle.

At the end of Season Four of 'Mr. Show,' instead of doing another season, everyone just thought they wanted to go and do a movie. Kind of like Monty Python. Monty Python went right into 'And Now For Something Completely Different,' and everyone kind of compared 'Mr. Show' to Monty Python.

I think I have unique qualities that other people don't have that can contribute to the team.

You always hope new players complete the team with their qualities.

I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It's always a real collaboration for me.

You try on purpose to get players with different qualities which will rub off on one another.

I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.

It's better to have a lot of different qualities in the team; it's a good mix.

I am strong enough, and I have qualities, and when good players come in, I will play with good players.

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

The reality is, like any band, you can never quite quantify who does what.

Everything depends on the club more than the player: the quantities, the paperwork.

I never want to co-write. People never just write a quarter of a book, do they? I don't think you can get your story across.