Quotes About Collaboration

I think that old school style of 'I'm your parent and I'm greater than you' doesn't work. What I establish with my children is a partnership.

I love artists. I love watching other people work.

I like to plan everything out and know exactly what we're doing. It's always important to me to work with a cast and a crew that not only I respect their talent but I really like them as people.

Tom Hanks has been a huge idol of mine. I'd love to work with someone like him someday. You could learn a lot working with someone like that.

I can imagine wanting to work with this ensemble and this company always.

Shera's Two Laws of Cataloging: Law #1, No cataloger will accept the work of any other cataloger. Law #2: No cataloger will accept his/her own work six months after the cataloging.

Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.

I loathe conflict, and I loathe not getting along well with people, so I always try very hard to be on the best terms with the people I work with.

I would love to work with Nickleback. I think they're an incredible band. One of my favorites.

I have several writer friends, but I don't involve them in my work process. I'm more likely to talk about the business of publishing with them.

When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way we are going to get something done is if we work together.

Yes, we have got to quit worrying about fighting each other and trying to figure out a way to work together.

I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work.

Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater, but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights, and maybe pitfalls too.

It's great working with Steve Carell and Jim Carrey. Those guys are really funny.

I always tell people that to be the funny person in a Steve Martin movie is like getting a call that Keith Moon wants you to play drums on his record. He should be playing drums on his record.

Kane is a band I formed with my best friend Steve Carlson. We just got together and started playing guitar. He was playing some old school rock and roll, and we got together and thought, 'Hey, let's take this on the road.'

Steve Aoki is somebody I really love, and he did a remix of 'Mi Gente,' too.

I will admit, it's so intoxicating working with Steve Carrell. Creatively and professionally.

In our band, every member has input, but me and Steve do the majority of the writing. We start the songs, the rest of the band help us finish it.

There are parts in albums where I wrote a lot of the lyrics. There are parts on albums where Steve wrote a lot of the lyrics, even albums where Steve did the majority of the lyric writing. Then there were albums like 'Coming Home' where I did most of the chorus lyric writing. But it was always split.

I'd love to work with Michael Keaton, Steve Martin, and Bryan Cranston again.

I've been getting to work with Steve Carell and just feel like the luckiest kid in the world.

Steve Carell is the most spectacular ad-lib improviser ever. And just doing a scene with him, it's just one incredible topping himself on every take.