Quotes About Collaboration

We're probably close to reaching 2,000 shows, which is more than Julia Child and Jacques Pepin together.

For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.

I was entirely comfortable reaching across the Senate aisle to work with Democrats.

All my collaborations happen in different ways. Sometimes it's through a chance meeting at a festival or event, while others can happen just off the back of me liking their music and reaching out.

People say never work with children and animals. I actually like working with Oliver Bell, and working with a rat really opens possibilities to you because you don't know how it's going to be. It's just a rat, so you can just react to this rat being a rat, if that makes sense.

If you're playing with somebody from another idiom, you can't react to them in the same way that you react to somebody that is closer to your idiom. You don't fall into the same habits. You find a new way of communicating.

With actors, it's really about feeding them all the time. I don't get involved in their process. I try to do the opposite, feeding them, feeding them, feeding them, and you can see very easily how they react to it.

When you act with phenomenal actors, it makes your job much easier because all you have to do is react.

Acting is about reacting, and it's not easy to do that when you don't have a good co-star.

When David Cross and I made 'Todd Margaret,' we spent time there. We were shocked and happy with the reaction that we got with fans over there. It was pretty awesome.

I'll always work with my collaborator in the room so I have a reaction on a note-by-note basis. I know in my gut when something works for me, and I'll fight for it, but I'm a very easy re-writer.

I really was very impressed with DMX during the whole experience on 'Romeo Must Die.' I like working with him. I liked him. And I was very impressed with the reaction of the audience when he was in the picture.

Maybe we could think of science as being like a nuclear chain reaction in which people and ideas bounce off each other, and if critical mass is reached, a new field is formed.

When you are doing comedy, you need to get the right reaction from your partner.

I learnt how acting is more about listening to the other person; it is about reaction. You learn to be a foil, and that helped when it came to directing.

Ranveer is a great co-actor. He is extremely reactive and extremely responsive. He is a pleasure to work with.

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

If something's not working, it's wonderful to have a reader you can trust to say, 'Actually, you've gone off the deep end here'.

Words build a bridge between the imaginations of writer and reader, creating something unique between them.

A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.

Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.

You need books to read and readers for books.

Margot Livesey, my dear friend, reads all the drafts of what I write, and I read hers. We have an intense working relationship. I've been really lucky to know her. She's a great reader and teacher as well as an astonishingly good writer.