Quotes About Collaboration

I talk with every player individually and as a team.

My approach to directing is to not do very much directing. I'm mainly interested in what the creative group individually and together are thinking.

Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

You can have a bunch of individually good players, but it doesn't matter. You gotta learn to play like a team.

It's important everyone knows their roles individually and collectively as a group.

It doesn't matter how well you play individually if the team isn't winning.

Anything that I can do individually to help our team is what I want to do.

Earlier in my career, a lot of guys wanted individual numbers and to do well individually.

You have to focus on what your goal is as a team. The most important thing is as a team, your goal is greater than you individually.

We don't ever write stuff individually and say, 'OK, this is gonna be the song.' We bring in ideas in their rawest form and bounce them around to find the thing that is bigger than any individual's idea.

Coming in, you're so concerned about learning your job and the things you need to do to be successful individually. Once that's good, you can start to focus on learning guys around you and learning defenses and what they're trying to do to you.

I think I try to look out for the best interest of the players individually, the team.

And as you said, everyone contributed; certain areas of material came from certain individuals.

What I'm really focused on is connecting people around shared interests, so together they can make good stuff happen. I'm more focused on helping people discover their power as individuals, but through those connections with one another.

Whatever we do as a band, none of us can do as individuals. We all know that, whatever we have gone through with each other and as a band.

At the end of the day, the more quality individuals you develop in the community, the better off the community should be.

Because over and over again, the times that I've done really good things is because I've had a wonderful client of some kind, and a lot of it depended on me to induce them to be creative.

Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment.

Both the industries, be it Bollywood or music, have been really kind to me.

I like the nexus of Bollywood and Hollywood. I'm actually shocked that there isn't more of a meld between our two industries.

'Baahubali' has brought so much name and fame to our industry. And if given a chance to work with Rajamouli, who would say no? I hope to work with him. You never know, maybe my 151st or 152nd film.

If you're a ball stopper, usually you're inefficient.

It's such a small industry here you inevitably end up working with the same people over and over again. There are only so many actors to go around, which is good for us.

Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.