Quotes About Collaboration

Many times, when a director reads a script and wants somebody who says 'Far out', then they let me do what I want with it and that's usually more interesting for an actor.

As the company scales, everybody is not going to get invited to every single meeting, but they're gonna want to go to every meeting.

Clients don't want us to do what they ask, they want us to go further

If the studio wants to spend money on making your movie better, let them.

Without any kind of real ego on my part, I just thought, I'm going to approach the people I admire and see if they want to do something together.

We allow the actors to do whatever they need to do or say to accomplish the goals that they want to accomplish.

Respect is important, if someone has a very clear vision of what they want, as long as they find a way to communicate it, a respectful way…

I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I want to try it again and again, and a lot of times my fellow musicians have to hold me back and say, "Nah, I think we got it."

Don't ask for cash from sponsors, imagine what they want

Creating the opportunities for other people and solid projects, things that I like, for sure, definitely. Acting I'll do forever, but I want to produce as well.

If you're working with a director you trust, you can turn that part of you off that wants to direct other actors in a certain way.

I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.

I have this habit of asking 'why do you want to do it?' and then interrupting them to say, 'here's why you want to do it.' Because it's in the 'yes...and' spirit [rule of improvisation].

I guess that's the major difference between '80s-club Madonna and today's Madonna is she can get anyone she wants to show up in the studio for her.

Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'.

I want collaboration, but if they don't have a plan or their vision isn't clear, it's nerve-wracking. So, someone that's very sure of the vision is what you want, most of all.

I've kind of learned this about Joss Whedon. Never say never. I've learned that. I also have another rule about Joss Whedon. Never say no. Just... whatever Joss Whedon wants to do, just do it.

I always have a very good relationship with galleries, a lot of galleries and artists, so I don't want any conflict situations.

I don't have the advocates. I don't have a good old boys network. Part of what I want to do is to create a good old girls network.

I like to give the actors the freedom, and they know they have the freedom, to change anything they want at any time.

I think people should be encouraged that there are so many people in the press that want to participate.

There are some people whom I esteem and want their opinion first, but that's my way. It is difficult for me to delegate. In the end, I do have two or three people on my team who I listen to.

I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what they want. And that can be really, really frustrating.

Behind every successful man is a woman but few of us realize that behind most successful women is a man too