Quotes About Collaboration

What I think is if the world is in some difficulty - about climate change, about economics - then we had better make sure that 100 per cent of every brain available on the planet is working at full pelt to try to sort these things out.

One thing I learn - I've been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.

I don't know anyone who would be exclusively working on game music, per se.

Ninety per cent of the crew that work with me are there since my childhood and which is why I do not want to work too much outside - because the people I work with are as important for me as my role.

I'd say 99 per cent of the time I write on my own, just with my guitar, and then it's trying to figure out what it needs in a production sense.

That's the best way to work on a project: talk to the director. In the end, it's the director's idea of how they perceive the movie and how they perceive the characters.

We have this perceived illusion of what the fashion designer does. As an industry, we make it out that this one individual changes the entire face of the earth. I have never said 'me'; it's always 'we.' I am just the big salesman.

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

You can't be 100 percent selfish when you're working with somebody else.

Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?

How is the government going to run without people like us? We make 35 percent of the bread in this country, and that much of the margarine, and cooking oil, and all the other things.

Every time you say yes to a film there's a certain percentage of your yes that has to do with the director, a certain percentage to do with the story, a certain percentage with the character, the location, etc.

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

It's about creating an environment where they give their all and do their best. If you have 11 players doing that at one time then a good percentage of the time you're going to be successful.

I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.

When I get to do whatever I want, I'm perfectly happy. I've found that the best scenario is that I just do what I do, and if somebody wants to be part of it, they should work as a conduit for what vision I have. They should help me complete the universe.

You can really walk around a song and completely, if it's a good song, look at it from a lot of different angles. Johnny Cash with Rick Rubin illustrated that perfectly.

It's true that through playing more games our understanding has got much better and now Leo knows me perfectly. He always looks for me - and I look for him - and thanks to that we've been able to score a lot of goals.

In football if not all the team is perfect you will not win. It's the same with a watch, if everything is not perfectly in place the watch is not going to work.

I love my band - they are the best out there, and I wouldn't want to perform with anyone else.

It's always dope being able to perform with your girlfriend and get money with your girlfriend.

We gotta stop fighting amongst each other. I think the only rift should be when take it the stage and try to out perform each other.

With every song I have a person in mind who, in a perfect world, would perform with me. Usually I end up not getting that person, and I'm forced to settle for someone else.

I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.