Quotes About Collaboration

I'm enjoying Channel Four's '10 O'Clock Live.' I like the idea of putting together a dream team and seeing what happens. I also like 'Not Going Out,' the sitcom starring Lee Mack. It's a sitcom packed with jokes. Not many of them as frowned upon as lacking kudos.

There's a real sense of camaraderie with sitcoms.

The success that I have in sitcoms comes from the fact that 60 percent of the writers are Jewish guys in their early to late 40s.

Some people would ask: 'You are not the one who does the painting, or shot the work, how can it be your work?' But I was the one who chose which site we should use, and which assistant helps me to do the painting, or the shot.

The employee relationships are important, investment in our people is important, and the ability to do work at multiple sites is important.

I did this thing with Trisha Yearwood, a song called 'The Price.' I had been sitting on it for a while, because I figured, you know, this really needs a good singer.

When he would give you direction, it was not sitting in a chair saying, 'Hey, babe! Do this and that and the other thing.' Mr. Sirk would ask, 'May I speak with you?' and sit down and say, 'I think this should be done this way. And how do you feel about it? Do you feel it that way?'

I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think, so that you get the benefit of everyone's opinions and so it's not just about you in your you-dom.

It's a really deep and layered psychological situation - making music with someone - if they're trying to make something real and personal. It's almost like dating: you allow yourself to be consumed by the other - not in a bad way, but in a way that happens in nature.

It's always great playing with other musicians. It's also a great situation where I'm the older guy, I've influenced generations of guitar players.

The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.

I think that the climate within the band has changed, it's now in a more functional situation.

But I'm always trying to plan ahead too and in doing so, and in working on this album, I've met a lot people that I hope to be involved with, on their records and in their situations.

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

I've been in very many situations where I've not liked the other members of the band or they have not liked me. I grew up presuming that's the way music was made. It doesn't need to be that way. It's taken me years years to find that out.

Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.

As a professional climber and photographer, I am asked to shoot in a lot of situations with a lot of different people. Sometimes I'm with the hardest, most seasoned alpinists in the world. Sometimes I'm hanging out with celebrities doing a benefit climb.

The-Dream was like my diary. I would sit there and talk his ear off about all my guy situations; he would just turn my stories into songs.

I produced six movies with Amy Robinson since the very early '80s.

When you're filming for seven months or six months at a time, you bond with people hugely.

Forty for you, sixty for me. And equal partners we will be.

Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now.

No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to fill it out.