Quotes About Collaboration

You go through your career and you find people and cast who you love and you go through and keep them and you never want to let them go because you have a great repertory with them.

The important thing is staying together if you want to do something special.

The United States wants to be part of the solution to its problems and not, in part, the maker of their problems.

What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting.

We all have different perspectives but we tend not to disagree with each other very often in terms of where we want to get or where we want to be. So it's been amazing working with my brothers.

It's about all of us, and the kind of world that we, together, want to live in and share.

I really [enjoy] working with new people and just sort of the freshness of it. ... I [want] to have those new conversations, musically and otherwise.

When you know people are really at peace with who they are and what they do, they collaborate and want to help you to improve.

I think film is collaboration, and I always want to hear everyone's input.

I guess what I learned about myself is I'm a bit of a socialist; I want everyone on the set to get equal treatment and credit.

The one thing that I really want, ... is for our second group to be an energy unit. That's what we had in our championship run, and that's what I think you are starting to see with this group.

I like to hire the kind of people that I would want to be on stage with.

It takes a lot of people to create a success. That's why I say that few leaders are successful unless a lot of people want them to be.

Any politician who is not a unifier is not somebody that I want to be for.

When you have two people that good in a movie, I think it adds a class and a feeling of importance for other actors that they want to be involved.

You're about to walk on stage and play together for the next few hours so you want to feel connected and make sure that everyone is in the same head space; a good head space.

What you realize is that a lot of actors want to be directed. They're there to do the best job they can for the director. They have a lot of questions, and your job is to have answers.

Compromise is what it's got to be all about when you're governing, because no one is ever going to have a big enough majority to just do what they want to do all the time.

You have to know that your collaborators want you to make the movie that you want. Don't back down because you think it's nice to them. You need to have the film be the way that you want it.

I got a bunch of people together to talk about doing a lot and decided that I really want to throw my hand in and do as much as I can.

I have to make good things so good comedians want to talk to me.

I'm really loving acting. I want this as a career. I'll still write music and collaborate with people, but I'm focused on the acting path.

As a filmmaker, I want to be known as a pan-African filmmaker and this is because I think that we have more to gain as Africans than as individual countries.

I guess it's easier to get things made when you know the story you want to tell, you know the characters you want to play, and you know the filmmakers you want to tell them with.