Quotes About Collaboration

I just like working with my family; I like building something together.

This country is not built on one culture alone. We all make up this industry.

I always struggle to get Aussies on stuff if I'm just being honest. I've asked heaps of Aussies to do duets and it's always just a pain in the bum and I just don't bother any more.

The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess.

I love doing a film with a new bunch of people.

I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands.

When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.

When leaders choose to burn bridges instead of build them, they sacrifice their ability to do their jobs.

I never had a burning desire to direct. But Burt and I, on many pictures together, used to watch other directors and we realized that he or I could do a lot better.

The government needs to send out a message to the business community that 'we are on your side.'

What artists think about the world is often different from how we businessmen see it, and I find that an enriching experience.

As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.

Stand in a way that you are always empowering people to join in, because the only way to be truly successful is not to succeed as an individual, but to succeed as a part of a community, of a country.

I was excited at something new, always liked something new, but give credit to everybody who helped. I didn't do anything alone but try to go to the root of the question and succeeded there.

Neither Rainer Werner, nor any of us could have succeeded, or produced the number of films that we did, just on our own. We showed our films to each other, discussed them vigorously and rarely agreed.

I try to choose characters that are very different; I think I have succeeded in that. A big role or a small one does not bother me at all. What matters is that I should have a rapport with the director.

The more diverse a research group or a business, the more robust it is, the more flexible it is, and the better it succeeds.

When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

When the whole team succeeds, everybody profits.

When someone around you succeeds, it does not mean they've taken that spot from you. What it means is that you are in the atmosphere of someone who is creating.

Success is best when it's shared.

Success is measured by what we accomplish together.

Success is knowing that your contribution is what helps the collective.

There's a part of me that wants to be known and make a comfortable living but still be able to go grocery shopping. My overall idea of success is having people I want to work with want to work with me.