Quotes About Collaboration

When you're in a band, inevitably, someone is siding with someone else, and you're fighting over something that happened in the band five years ago.

Co-founders shouldn't excel in the same areas - it's inefficient and will inevitably lead to conflicts down the road.

Bad improv happens with people who are inexperienced with each other and don't know the craft that well. But bad stand-up is something that could happen to someone at any level in their career.

There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence.

You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.

One of the reasons I never had a problem handing over my characters to other creators is that I knew that they would add their own influences and takes on the characters and make them better for it.

When I sit down with filmmakers, I feel like we speak the same language in a lot of ways. We watch the same movies and have the same influences. If anything, it creates a dialogue that makes my work more effective.

I want to make myself better and get working with some of my biggest influences and make the best music I can.

I think TV, films, and the stage inform each other. It's good to go back and forth.

What I love about low-budget movies is my interests and the director's interests and the actors' interests are aligned. No one makes money unless the movie works, and that informs every creative decision.

It's important to engage with governments around the world in how they're thinking about AI - to help inform them.

Informed clients are better clients, and they make for better design.

When you are in the infrastructure sector, you've to work along with the government.

Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.

You know how it is: when you politicize things, it is not the best ingredient to get things done.

Don't put too many chefs to work. Sometimes they get too involved in the ingredients and are of no help.

All movies are inherently collaborative, and animation even more so. There are hundreds and hundreds of people involved with an animated movie.

You get the initial script, and then things sort of change here and there, but the whole thing is this sort of mushy collaboration, which I love.

I came up with the Enveloper when I was 20 and it took my dad and me several months to develop the initial concept into a working model.

We should all be allies to ideas or people or initiatives that we don't necessarily have a real knowledge in.

The B Team can catalyse initiatives.

I was dancing on Broadway for many years. Then everyone was either getting injured or retiring, and I was dancing with younger dancers.

It feels good to be able to contribute, eat innings, provide some rest for the bullpen.

Diversity is critical to innovation.