Quotes About Collaboration

Jack Nicholson and I have been friends ever since we met while doing 'The King of Marvin Gardens.'

When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.

A collaboration with Rob Halford, the 'Metal God,' has always been my dream. I never imagined that dream would come true!

I like to share my metal with other musicians. It's very cool.

I always say my role in Metallica is to support the song and to support my team, and whatever that means, I'm there for it.

I've been a fan of Metallica and friends with those guys for a long time and that was just great - half Alice In Chains and half Metallica playing together.

Before we joined BABYMETAL, we weren't that familiar with metal, but we learned a lot from Metallica. Watching their shows and even meeting them, they were really nice to us.

The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what I tried to make happen for 'Metals,' which is having five people in the room and all of us contributing equally to every arrangement and every song.

I share a lovely relationship with Javed Saab. I understand his method of working.

When I got to GM they were using a matrix method of management which means everybody has more than one boss. I first heard about that system many years ago. It's supposed to help with collaboration, but my assessment is that it's pretty hard to get geared for action that way.

I am proud to say I'm a director's composer. People do method acting, I do method composing. I like to get into the skin of the character and go deep into the director's vision.

I don't know we have a method. We show up at the office. Is that a method? That's about the extent to which it's been formalized, asystematised. We show up at the office and talk, talk a scene through.

There's no particular method or course of action that I take in order to decide who I'm going to work with besides feeling complete and total respect and admiration for that artist.

Adam's impulsive and energetic, and I'm calm and methodical.

I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.

We don't care who you is - Blood, Crip, Mexican, Chinese. You feel me? If you about doing something positive with yourself and your community, let's join forces together.

Hell, I would love to work with El Torito somewhere and somehow on the indies or down in Mexico. Something like that.

It's great to work with a group from Miami.

I would love to work with Jack Nicholson, Saoirse Ronan, Michael Shannon and James Franco in the future. I think those actors are amazing, and they are my favourite actors by far.

On 'Vikings,' nobody's got an ego. Michael Hirst is just so open and so collaborative.

Michael Hogan is an absolutely brilliant actor, so anytime I get to work with someone of that caliber, I get excited.

It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.

Anytime I get the chance to sing or work with Michael John, it is such an incredibly fertile and incredibly creative and safe and encouraging environment - and challenging, too, because he is so collaborative!

I like Michael Bay a whole lot. And Jerry Bruckheimer. But I love Ben Affleck as a person, as a director, as an actor.