Quotes About Collaboration

The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.

I must say, I've been in the studio with Jay Z, dog... I thought the freestyle thing was a myth. But, bro!

I think there's been a myth that QBs makes the WRs but it works hand and hand. QBs need good WRs to throw to in order to be great and WRs need good QBs to throw to them in order to be great.

Part of debunking the mythology of filmmaking is that we tend to want to locate it often in one person. And it's not one person. It's a collective, and it is a collaboration.

We have to find common grounds. NAFTA is 22 years old. We need to modernize it.

You can write and write, but if you don't have someone who can nail that character, it's never going to live.

It's more fun to write stuff when you know someone's going to nail it.

Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back.

The name on the front of the jersey is what really matters, not the name on the back.

I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band.

When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.

I wrote a song with a guy named Brian McKnight, who's a huge R&B guy.

I want first and foremost to help other artists, launch new names, to provide opportunities. I want to do for them what happened to me, but better.

I don't care about names attached to the script. That doesn't matter to me. All things being equal, I would like to work with a good script with a good director, and the part I play is of less important than those two factors.

I'd love to work with some of the people I've remixed for - Ed Sheeran or Chris Martin or The Weeknd. But it's not just big names like these guys that I want to collaborate with.

'Crime Story' was where I learned that I needed to get to know every crew member: what they did and what their names were and who their families were and whatever things they would give me.

The role and the script are not the only factor to chose or do a film, but the names associated with the project also matters.

For a writer, the Book Festival is interesting because you bump into all these other writers whose work you know, whose names you know, and you have a chance to put a person with the name and the work.

You know how on movie sets there are specific chairs for each person? I hate that. We don't have names on our chairs. We have five chairs. Anyone can sit on them. I think the idea of names on chairs on a set is terrible. It's so dumb. So we got rid of that.

It's not about the names or the faces: it's about the music we are creating.

I would say for a team to win, you don't need big names. You just need the right pieces.

I'm fortunate to have a team of people who help me. I've got an assistant, an office manager, a nanny - she's not full-time, but she's there when I need her.

I would love to do a movie with Albert Brooks; we're so different, but I find him so funny, and I can be just as seemingly narcissistic as he comes off, the 'it's all about me' kind of thing.

What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do what and how we're going to achieve the generic goals on the list.