Quotes About Collaboration

Success is not winning the World Cup. It may be a goal in your mind but success is having a team that is improving all the time.

Billy [Corgan] and I used to spend quite a lot of time together in Los Angeles, when I first moved there.

Our deal always was that we did one as scripted always, we got it like we thought we needed - so we were all happy with it as written. Then I'd let him play as long as we had time.

I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.

I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.

Most of the time I've worked with directors who write their own scripts. The story is more important to me than the part. The project of the film has always been more important to me.

The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That first time was magic, it was so beautiful. And he's such a great artist.

Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.

Making films is too big an undertaking to be doing it on a whim, so you're waiting all the time, until you finally meet the person who gets it.

And then the last album, "Get It", was done over a shorter period of time and I started using other musicians, as opposed to playing all the instruments myself like I did on the other two.

I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.

You know, people have tried to make out there is a split between environmentalism and labor over the years. And if that was ever true, it becomes less so all the time.

I was in Hollis' band for eight years, playing drums. At one time we had Barry Beckett, Jimmy Johnson, David Hood - everybody but Roger Hawkins. We had a hell of a band.

If you have people who are high-performing working for you, it's so easy to do your job. Otherwise, you can't even agree on the time of the meeting or who will bring the coffee.

I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up.

We spent a lot of time together and had a great time with Mary Tyler Moore. And just working with her was like improv.

[Filming Payne] that was also the first time I worked with JoBeth Williams, which was also a case of not being the last time!

For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the community. Now there's no more wasting time.

I'm always trying to have a good time on set because that's when things happen. That's when you're playful.

We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.

When Jack White called and wanted me to do a video and play mandolin with The Raconteurs, I didn't know anything about The Raconteurs at that time.

It's a really incredible time to be working in television.

There comes a time when a man and woman realize that their separate schemes can be better achieved as a conspiracy.

Every time I feel that I really hit critical mass and I'm in the right place is when I feel like the director and I become a third thing, and that's the character.