Quotes About Collaboration

Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again.

I like a lot of international people. Julie Taymore, the American director - she's one of the most exciting directors I've seen.

I'd jump to do a film with Aamir Khan. Aamir thinks through things before starting a project.

Anytime I get a chance to work with the guys from the WWE, it's a chance I jump at if I can.

I don't need to be the fastest or be able to jump highest to be effective or do the right things to help the team.

I don't call cut between the takes - it's my way to help the actor keep focused. As soon as you say 'cut' you have 10 people jumping on them and everybody's trying to do a great job, and they do, but sometimes they forget that the more important thing is the performance, creating the performance.

Filmmaking is hard enough as it is. If you can find a group you love working with, it makes it just a little bit easier.

I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.

But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.

It's one of the things I love about my job: it's my job to help a director tell the story, to just be willing to help.

There were guys in 'The State' who would take one script and rewrite it and rewrite it and rewrite it and fight for it for a whole season, and after a couple of seasons, you realized that doesn't work. You have to just be willing to throw something away, no matter how good it is, and write a better joke.

Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there's a point where I wish that it wasn't, just because I think the score would be more effective if there was less of it. But, again, that's not my call.

I'm always working with amazing people. They're just kind of put in my path.

I sang in a group for four years, and you just kind of get used to it. You don't really think about being by yourself.

The way Apatow works, you do it scripted a couple times, and then he just kind of lets you go and improvise.

I was just one part of a great team.

I think we so often equate leadership with being experts - the leader is supposed to come in and fix things. But in this interconnected world we live in now, it's almost impossible for just one person to do that.

It is not about just one player, it is about the whole team.

Some directors have just one way of working; you either have to adhere to it or you don't.

No record belongs to just one person, and there are no number ones outside of a group.

One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice.

A magazine is not just one person. And a fashion shoot is the same!

I find that working with friends is always the goal, even if it's just one person. Because the comedy community is kind of insular, it's easy to run into people you've worked with, even if you worked with someone on something for a day, or whatever.

I'm very much of the opinion that theatre is a collective art form, not just one person's vision.