Quotes About Collaboration

Rugby is a game where everything is connected - from your kicking game to your defence to your set piece and attack.

Kickstarter is perfect for us. It wasn't something we heard about and just got to it. We did our research, met with the people at Kickstarter - they are brilliant, and they're excited to work with us.

With 'Kidnapped,' there didn't seem to be a sure hand guiding it: everything had to be run-up-the-pole, so to speak, and there seemed to be a large committee, every day fighting about what the show was about.

It is so killer to collaborate with someone who gets what you're trying to say.

Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.

We're very comfortable together, but when he starts acting, he gets incredibly focused. It's made me think, That's why he's The Kim Soo Hyun,' and he's a great help to me.

Doing something like 'Bushwick,' a lot of people need to agree that the piece is working with what's going on on the screen. So it's a lot of tweaks and re-works, just kinda moving pieces around and getting things to hit right.

When we got with George, he didn't care what was happening. He liked how crazy we were looking and dressing. I kinda liked being with George more so at the time, because George let us do what we wanted to do. But I needed both lessons.

If you're a fan of Shirley MacLaine just like I am, I'd kinda go anywhere to work with her.

You've all seen movies where the music isn't working with the story. And it's either because... the story isn't working itself. Or the composer kinda just wants to write whatever they want to write, not paying attention to the thing.

My friends and I started making films when I was still in kindergarten.

I came from the theater. It takes a team. We need everyone. It's not just No. 1 on the call sheet. I love to have kindness and respect and a place for where we can create.

Artists and scientists are very close. They always have been, but I think we've just been divided out over the last few centuries into specialisms. Leonardo da Vinci was drawing helicopters and all kinds of things. We're artificially divided. I think we're closer than we think we are.

Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.

I love doing it. It's great. I love doing the sessions, 'cause you're kind of like in a different band every day. I used to do them all the time. I think my first one was John Wetton from U.K. and Asia and all that stuff, King Crimson. It was so great. Really a lot of fun.

I think that when you have that really strong desire to work with someone it's because, instinctively, you feel you have a certain kinship.

As a second-time director you don't want to be working with someone who's a star that wants you to get down and kiss their feet.

It's a beautiful thing when the young guys grew up off you, or they embrace you and respect your craft. They always call for me like 'Kiss, this is going to solidify me to get a joint with you.' That makes you feel proud as an artist.

I've got a strong relationship with Kit Symons.

The story of Gucci is that there were too many cooks in the kitchen.

I'm pretty handy in the kitchen. But my wife's the real genius.

Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don't. There's a lot of cooks in the kitchen when it comes to making a movie. When you hear a line of dialogue that sounds kind of tinny, it's pretty easy to cite the screenwriter. But there's a lot of stuff that goes into making a movie.

If you bring in actors right when you're breaking story, it has a 'too many cooks in the kitchen' effect.

Everybody in my family cooks, so growing up and being around it... if I was going to spend time with everybody, it was helping them in the kitchen.