Quotes About Collaboration

A lot of times, good improv is when both people, or however many people are in the scene, really have no idea what the next thing you're going to say is.

I've no idea if I want to do this for the rest of my life, so I want to try and work with the best people I can.

I have to say, when you make a movie, you really have no idea how it's going to turn out as an actor. The important bit for an actor is the actual shooting of it because the minute the shoot ends, it's got nothing to do with you anymore.

When you write a song, there's no point keeping it to yourself.

I have no problem working with anybody as long as they are efficient and their intentions, their philosophy, their ideology are clear.

My mentality is I've never been the guy that always has to be the center of attention or has to be the front guy. I have no problem doing my job and somebody else getting the credit, or the attention being on somebody else.

There is competition for places and everyone is bringing the best out of each other. There is no problem there. It's just the way it is.

We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set.

soon as I heard it, I knew it was perfect! And finally, thanks to Jason Reed, Jennifer Gibgot, and Adam Shankman for their work on the film version

The two plants had a gentleman's agreement going, like the railroad companies and the real-estate speculators in the old days, whereby they progressed together up the hill and into the yard.

It was an inappropriate thought, but the baby wasn't so much like a love child, the effortless product of the blissful or even oblivious union of two people. He was a different sort of miracle, the effortful product of a tricky collaboration between unlikely partners. He was their version of a television program.

If I deal with my block and you deal with your block, we'll have two good blocks.

Israelis like to believe, and tell the world, that they were running an "enlightened" or "benign" occupation, qualitatively different from other military occupations the world had seen. The truth was radically different. Like all occupations, Israel's was founded on brute force, repression and fear, collaboration and treachery, beatings and torture chambers, and daily intimidation, humiliation, and manipulation.

Morris Halle was already working on a generative phonology of Russian in the 1950s, and we also worked together on the generative phonology of English, at first jointly with Fred Lukoff.

Simon's initial annoyance with having so many people and animals swarming around gave way to the realization that sometimes people didn't get in the way, but helped make a necessary and tedious job go smoother.

Certainly as a condition. It's also a job that requires attention and work, cooperation and creativity.

Four of us outside it, against him, are stronger than three.

good a writer." "I'm not bad, but you're right, book form isn't my strength. I'll hire a ghost this time.

Laszlo Bock, the former head of human resources at Google, has investigated the optimal amount of "work from home" time.45 He found it to be one and a half days a week. With this combination, employees both have time to connect and build bonds with each other and also time on their own to do deeper, undistracted work.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.

Honey, times like this, it helps to think of yourself as a sofa or a newspaper, something made by a lot of other people but not made to last forever.

If you want Neil Gaiman I could draw you a map.

Dialogue is a little bit jazz, a little bit hand-to-hand combat.

It's so much easier to point a finger than to take responsibility yourself, isn't it? Maybe it isn't so simple as this person's fault or that one. Maybe we make up the dance together, as we go along, and no one knows what the result will be.