Quotes About Collaboration

I love Kate Moss. I've worked with her a couple of times, and she is a great girl, really funny and easy to work with.

The most amazing thing you can ask for as an actor from a director is that you're being seen, that the choices made are informed.

I'm lucky, I'm very, very lucky. I work with some of the most amazing artists.

I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.

I think the most important thing is to play to help the team, winning the games - that is the main thing for me.

For me, the most important thing is the writing - and certainly the director. But if the writing isn't there, it doesn't matter who the director is!

The team is the most important thing.

That's one of the most powerful things in dance music - the DJs are so connected and help each other.

That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.

I've been careful to work with good people on interesting material, mostly.

Keep the team as small as possible. Having been on several of these mega-projects, they seem to grow magically. People are attracted to the project like moths to a flame.

When I need guidance or just to kvetch or to bounce ideas off of people, I go to Gail Simone, who is very much kind of the den mother of all of us who are working comics.

When you make an album, you have a team of musicians you work with; when you're a director and you're creating a motion picture, it's a much bigger animal.

I've gotten to work with people like Kristin Chenoweth and Chita Rivera... Seeing their process is so interesting. Seeing that these people aren't immortal - that they go through the same motions as we do and ask for feedback and break down scenes... They have to work, too, and that's really exciting to see.

I have my way of doing things, because I am that way, I try to raise my voice to motivate team-mates and make them aware that if they lose a ball it is not a problem, so I try to motivate my team-mates and to speak to them and, because I see the game from the back I see everything in front of me; communication on the field can help a lot.

If I see that everything the director does is motivated by trying to achieve the best, I can accept anything.

When one performs well, the others are automatically motivated to give their best.

Showing that you consistently have their best interests at heart not only motivates your people to do their best work; it also builds goodwill that you may need to draw on when the going gets tough and you have to lean on one another to find the horizon.

I think that the world is full of really, really good musicians, but that's not necessarily my motivation for having people involved. It's more how they contribute to the scene as a person.

There were a lot of great acts at Motown, and some of them were hard to get along with.

Identity of interests is the surest of bonds whether between states or individuals.

If the story you're reading is about health, there's one place you should be sure to look for a second opinion: the Cochrane Collaboration.

make it public. It's not just disagreeing to be disagreeable (pet food! online!), it's disagreeing where you can build

Understanding that what used to be hard is now free and easy due to the work of others is essential to the leapfrogging progress of technology.