Quotes About Teamwork

You go through your career and you find people and cast who you love and you go through and keep them and you never want to let them go because you have a great repertory with them.

The important thing is staying together if you want to do something special.

I think film is collaboration, and I always want to hear everyone's input.

I guess what I learned about myself is I'm a bit of a socialist; I want everyone on the set to get equal treatment and credit.

So if you're on tour for eight months, a year... or whatever it is you definitely don't want arguments and I'm happy to say that I've always had a really nice bunch of people around me all the time.

The one thing that I really want, ... is for our second group to be an energy unit. That's what we had in our championship run, and that's what I think you are starting to see with this group.

I like to hire the kind of people that I would want to be on stage with.

To play well, you need good players, but a good player almost always has the problem of a lack of efficiency. He always wants to do things prettier than strictly necessary.

It takes a lot of people to create a success. That's why I say that few leaders are successful unless a lot of people want them to be.

When you have two people that good in a movie, I think it adds a class and a feeling of importance for other actors that they want to be involved.

You have to know that your collaborators want you to make the movie that you want. Don't back down because you think it's nice to them. You need to have the film be the way that you want it.

I learned to choose my battles. Sometimes I let my producer deal with something that I didn't want to deal with.

I have five pitches. Fast ball, change, curve, slider, screwball. I don't know any hitters. Catcher, he tells me what to do. I can get any pitch I want over the plate.

I care more about the people than about the company. That's why I don't want to own it. I don't want to run a business. People do it better than I do.

To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.

As the company scales, everybody is not going to get invited to every single meeting, but they're gonna want to go to every meeting.

I'm definitely looking to put together a full season. I know what I'm capable of doing. I want to be the kind of player my teammates can depend on.

I'm in a great situation because I know what kind of player I want to be, I know where I'm going to be, and I know what I have to do to get there and I'm around the right guys.

Guys like Larry Bird -- he played so hard, he wants everybody else to play hard. That's not unreasonable. Any coach would want that and demand that.

Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself.

I believe that only a subset of us is meant to lead. The rest want to follow.

Respect is important, if someone has a very clear vision of what they want, as long as they find a way to communicate it, a respectful way…

If you're working with a director you trust, you can turn that part of you off that wants to direct other actors in a certain way.

I want collaboration, but if they don't have a plan or their vision isn't clear, it's nerve-wracking. So, someone that's very sure of the vision is what you want, most of all.