Quotes About Collaboration

You can't work across party lines when there aren't many of them. So I'm going to work across Republican Party lines because there are a lot of divisions in the Republican Party.

The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.

It used to be that Democrats and Republicans would disagree, but they could be social to each other. There were times during the year that we acted together in the good of the country.

Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.

I think it's OK if somebody likes my music and likes Sam Hunt's music, too. And I think if we're both selling records, it's good for everybody. I think it allows other records to get made.

I really don't believe in going too far out of your way to hunt down somebody to do a song.

I don't want things to be done in a hurry. So I never keep pressure on music directors with deadlines. I ask them to take their own time.

When you fight on set, you try to not hurt anybody.

Fight scenes are hard, no matter what you do. You're trying to make it look like you're hurting someone without hurting them. It doesn't matter how big and strong the guy is that you're fighting or how small and feeble someone is that you're fighting. You don't want to hurt them. You're working with them.

It's pretty much those little hustle plays that make a team good.

I'm not particularly fond of the hybrid writer-director or actor-director.

The crew on 'Three Bilboards,' by the way, is one of the best I've ever worked with. And that's not hyperbole.

I got Ice Cube his start. I also launched Eazy-E.

I like to spend time with senior actors before going on set to break the ice. On set, I just look at them as co-actors.

Whatever we put on the ice, we just need to have good performance from all the players.

I've been dying to do something with Ms. Patti LaBelle because she is so iconic. I grew up listening to her with my mom in the house. She is such a big inspiration to me.

The work that Rock The Vote does is incredible. So it's cool to collab with such an iconic organization.

As an actor, I have had an iconic journey and was fortunate enough to have worked with some really wonderful directors.

I approach most every job that I do with some sort of team ideal involved.

The established politicians, who before the war preached national pride and Christian love, were the first to collaborate with the Germans. But the communists, who as children we'd been taught to fear, kept a resistance movement alive, living and dying true to their ideals.

Exchange ideas frequently.

I just put people together. I just identified jobs that have to be filled. And then I have to go out and find the right people and make sure they talk to each other. So I'm the beneficiary of good things that other people do. I get credit for that. If they don't do a good job, I get the blame for it.

A lot of Europeans have done this, worked with American stars, and become identified over here.

I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.