Quotes About Collaboration

From the initial days of my career I have always given importance to two things. One is to heed to directors instructions and the other is to have faith on my action director.

Our approach is more the jazz approach, where you learn to play your instrument as well as you can, develop your craft, and then communicate with each other. That's the focus, not trying to give some message or entertain or have a good light show or whatever.

I'm not here to battle anybody. In the end it's just an instrument. That shouldn't be a concept.

Everybody is someone else's instrument.

We want to start a 'Flash' band. Everyone can play an instrument and sing.

The camera is not the instrument. People are always the instrument.

Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores.

Jared Kushner is Ivanka Trump husband. Jared was instrumental in being kind of an overlay in kind of bringing Trump's genius down to the all the different parts of leadership.

An auditory scenario for the players to act out with their instruments.

I would love to have a song that fusions western arrangement with classic Indian instruments.

When I'm making a song that's very Grimes, it just feels very insular and it feels weird to have someone else do something on it.

Working on TV can be quite insular.

My records have a lot of collaborators on them, and when you're writing a book, it's a very insular process that's very confusing and dark. It's a lot of writing and rewriting in a way that I don't do so much when I'm writing songs.

Each team is different but you give yourself a better chance if you keep the team intact.

One of my philosophies is that citizens are the mayor... so we have citizens play an integral role in making policies and implementing them.

Every part of it is important; the film comes alive when you edit it, the film comes alive when you write it, the film comes alive when you act it, and the same with the directing. They're all the most important part at the time and that's why I enjoy doing it, because you're creating a story and every part is a very integral part of it.

Just to be around that, to feel a part of it and be able to integrate the experience while I was with the Messengers, of going and playing gigs with other drummers, gave me the chance to realize that it was not just me that was making it happen.

I want to ideate with people and come up with something through which I can rehabilitate people who are handicapped in some way and integrate them with people into mainstream. That's the bigger plan!

Integration is a give and take.

Brazil must resume and deepen Latin American integration.

What we should be doing in the EU as a whole is more economic integration in the single market, rather than less.

The stakeholder approach to business sees integration rather than separation, and sees how things fit together.

There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now.

I try to find the right director who won't compromise his or anyone else's integrity, and yet be political enough to give the studio what they want, yet put up a fight to maintain that integrity.