Quotes About Collaboration

It's difficult to gel players.

Western classical music and classical dance gel beautifully.

When you gel together as a team, you don't have to go out there and try to beat the world by yourself.

I got offered to do a book yeah, and they said to me, 'Gem, you're so busy, how about we get someone to walk around with you with a dictaphone,' and that's how we did it.

There are different chemistries you can have in different bands, and part of that's caused by the gender.

For us, gender didn't come up. We were friends who happened to play together. We never said, 'Gee, we're an all-girl band!'

And the people I'm best friends with on the films are not generally the actors.

To generate positive creative friction, you need people who'll tell you 'No.'

We can create opportunities to generate value by working across the entire breadth of Boeing.

It takes a year for us to generate a script that is ready to shoot. There are maybe 20 drafts of a script. And, each time, someone saying 'I don't really love this,' we discuss it for 15 minutes.

There is not that much of a generation gap these days.

We need to have a vision of the world we want to create so that we can see ourselves as collaborators with future generations in the project of shaping it.

I think doing a record with B.B. King allowed me the opportunity to blend two different generations across the board and make a song that I hope is extremely impactful.

Jazz is all about being in the moment. Whatever the music is making you feel, jazz gives you the freedom. That's the same genesis as hip-hop.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction.

I love David Fincher and I think he's a genius.

I'm not a genius. I need other people to get the perfect information. When we have this, we will decide to sign or sell a player.

I really want to work with Chris Martin. I think he's a genius.

The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.

Genre boundaries are good for marketing but they all but disappear when you're a player.

There's many different genres, and when you see R&B and pop and house, as well as electronic, come together, that's the reality of what music is.

The thing that's amazing about working with Chris Landon is that he has such an encyclopedic knowledge of all films in all genres.

I've been fortunate to work with artists that are at the top of their respective genres. That allowed me to learn from them and their success.

I think it is best that if you are the writer you just leave the director to it. With the caveat that you state, 'Be gentle with the script. And if there are changes, consult me.'