Quotes About Collaboration

When you are captain you basically think differently - more about the team than yourself.

I don't view myself as a team manager, but a team captain. I'm part of the team, but everybody else as well.

It's not a successful captain that makes a successful team.

I would love to get bumped up to be team captain, or even Asuka. Either-or. We can even be co-captains.

We always record with the whole band. That's key to capturing the feel, especially trying to get a good basic track.

That's what brothers do. I expect a lot from him. We always work out together. We always do everything together. I know what he's capable of doing. He knows what I'm capable of doing. When it doesn't happen, we pull each other's cards.

When your team does well and you're winning then everyone has success from that. You see that with all Cup-winning teams. Those guys end up having long careers.

I'm really careful with what the music gets put with, and we say no to so much stuff, loads of it, for things that might quadruple the sales of my album. But if it doesn't fit then it doesn't fit, you know?

If you have one driver who only cares about himself then it's not great.

'Mildred' was the first film I shot on Super 16 with Ed Lachman, and we decided to continue doing so for 'Carol.'

From the day an idea is conceptualized to the day the technology is built, carried out, and regulated, it's important to have that human awareness.

It's my feeling that on sensitive, localized issues like our schools, it's important to lead with the carrot and not force peoples' hands.

Art was carrying me a lot of the time. When you're accustomed to playing with Art, and you play with other drummers, it's as if the bottom dropped out.

I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.

Sometimes we'd just play acoustic guitar and try out the parts and make a library. We'd use a double cassette player and make little edits.

The cast is so big that you really don't work very much.

As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book.

My respect for animation has gone way up. It's a truckload of work. I have to sit with my animators the same way I'd sit with my actors and cast them.

Great actors help. Every project is different. Sometimes it's completely open, and I've been able to cast who I've wanted. And then sometimes people want a certain kind of actor.

What a casting director does is they're a connector.

We have a particular philosophy in the casting room that we don't really tell the actors - the actors tell us.

Some of the best casts I've ever worked with have been dogs.

Publicists cater to bloggers because they can play them; bloggers cater to publicists because they want their ads.

I'm not really comfortable with being on songs with cats I don't really know.