Quotes About Collaboration

I'm proud that I've been able to attract an incredible team to work with me.

I had a whole bunch of very successful movies. I have worked with some incredible people - incredible.

Machinima has just been stupid-amazing. They're incredible. It's been exciting to work with them, and I hope to do it for a long time.

Dhanush is an insanely incredible actor. To be directed by him has been nothing short of a learning experience.

Playing with Kip I definitely learned a lot playing with these incredible guys and hearing them.

Roseanne was incredible to work with. She was extremely bright.

I take jobs with people I admire, people with incredible talent who aren't necessarily big sellers.

New York is an incredible place to be an artist, because there are so many incredible people, and... it's all about the people that you get exposed to.

My job is to hire the best and brightest employees and empower them to do their best work. As a manager, I am not a mind reader nor an expert at every job function. Therefore, it is incumbent on all hires to feel empowered to tell me what resources they need to do their job.

It's incumbent upon a director, if you want to pull the best performance out of an actor, you have to really work to who they are and how they work and not just expect them to hit a mark every time. You have to be very adaptable in the approach that you use with every different actor.

I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.

We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new 'Declaration of Inter-dependence.' A belief in how much we need each other, how much we share one common destiny.

I am a very independent person, and I, you know, I maintain that independence, but, you know, certain things - I mean, it takes, you know, it's just much easier for other people if other people can help you every now and again.

Mahatma Gandhi went from Africa to India, and once India won its freedom, it helped African countries to get their independence.

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

When you shoot an independent movie you have a very limited amount of time, and you don't want to be that actor, when a poor director is trying to get through a movie, that you're asking at every second to discuss performance.

I've been fortunate to work with some amazing Asian filmmakers in independent film.

I love independent films. I love going to see them. I love being a part of them because it kind of feels like 'all for one and one for all.' It can be really challenging but also really rewarding because sometimes you have to do so much stuff in a day, but I like that challenge, and you make such amazing friends.

With independent films, you again get to work with new directors and experiment too.

The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.

I am leading this government but this is a three-party government and even the independents are with us. More importantly, the public is with us. So it is everyone's government.

Our aim should be to make India a global R&D hub.

I'd play with these Indian players, the tabla and sitar.

I do think that my Indian classical audiences thought I was sacrificing them through working with George; I became known as the 'fifth Beatle.' In India, they thought I was mad.