Quotes About Teamwork

I like putting things together. The long game. Strategizing. Being able to mix and match personalities of guys.

It's not the armband that makes a good captain - it's the force of personality.

Each director maintains a different personality. Either you get along, or you don't.

The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably.

When you keep working with somebody, you find out a lot of things about them if you don't know each other personally.

Personally I'm very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.

I believe in collaboration. I think that is the most entertaining and effective way to write for me, personally.

When you first come to practice, you learn the guys. You're going to play with them for the next couple seasons. You just need to know what shots they like, how they run, how good a lead they are. You need to know your personnel.

If the best that we have is an iso, or if my personnel on my team dictates that that is really good, then that's what we're going to do.

I don't try to come in and act like I know it all, and that's why I put the extra work in of watching film, getting an understanding of what you want from personnel, each player.

You need the management personnel who can help you out with various things. The captain can't be asked to get into every decision.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

From our perspective, the most important thing is what you do with the players, how you handle them, your ability to communicate with them.

Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.

Leaders have to consider whether they have the right diverse perspectives at the table.

The military is a group of people that come together from different perspectives and backgrounds and places and get a job done because they have a mission.

When employees can bring their full selves to work, we get the full benefit of all their perspectives and experiences.

I think that's the beauty of the collaboration with a team. In the end, it never turns out how you imagine, it always is this amalgam of bringing in different perspectives.

Howard Shore, who's an amazing film composer, told me once that it's 10 percent inspiration, 90 percent perspiration. So I think even within the creative process, like being a producer, you're really managing people and getting the best out of them.

When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade someone to write a certain type of song, either musically or lyrically.

People don't like to follow pessimists.

My pet hate is being beaten by a team who works harder than you do.

I'd love to work with Lena Headey, Alfie Allen, Charles Dance. I'd love to work with Peter Dinklage.

If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.