Quotes About Collaboration

You know there's an old african proverb that i made up: "If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

A lot of people especially want to know about going into business. But it's a two-way conversation.

Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make.

Joining a band without ever having really met the people before, you just want to be musically powerful.

That's my No. 1 goal. I want to be part of (captain) Tom Lehman 's team.

I've been approached many times by many different people, and most people want to do something that I write and produce, and I'm just not into that.

Believe me, you need good people if you want to make good players.

You don't have to see eye-to-eye to walk hand-in-hand. You just have to want to go in the same direction.

Fairness does not consist so much of everybody's doing the same thing, but of everybody's being willing to do something that others don't want to do.

When I was a kid it was much more difficult. You're trying to understand what the director wants. It's a learning process. Now, you go in and it's more of a collaboration.

Be generous with the credit for your achievements. The more other people feel that they are gaining from your success, the more they will continue to help and others will want to join in

Every man is captain of his career and there must be cooperation all around if he is to get what he wants out of life.

I'm usually writing or producing for other people. I'm like Burger King most of the time; I let people have it their way like "You want it like this? I'll give it to you like this."

I was into writing and directing. I was a bit of a reluctant actor. I would always ask friends to shoot or direct their movies, but then they'd want me to be in them.

It's a collaborative art form where we can both learn something from the other. That's what you want from the relationship with a director.

I did Brad's first film The Take and I'm glad Brad [Furman] has not calmed down. I don't want him to ever calm down.

To get what you want help others get what they want

It's impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It's the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.

We are hearing more and more from our clients, they want to know how to build not only a great corporate culture, but effective cultures in each of their smaller teams.

I love working fast. I don't relish the director who wants to do 25 to 30 takes, or the actors who insist on doing 25 or 30 takes.

I kind of rely on my artist friends to make my physical music worth buying by having them all come together and create beautiful artwork that everyone is gonna want to own to support my record.

I learned a lot about 3D animation from and with my dear friend Michael Hemschoot of Workerstudio. Taught me that I want to play more with animation and image manipulation. Fun stuff!

It's very nourishing and collaborative - kind of the true essence of what one would want an artistic collaboration to be [the collaboration with Oprah Winfrey].

I like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle.