Quotes About Teamwork

As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.

It's like a dream job to work with your friends.

I realized that when two people function well together at work, it doesn't matter if they hadn't seen each other for years. What they had before was still intact.

I want to work with Johnny Depp.

It often comes down to the people that you get to work with, and to match or enhance their creation. I tend to fall in love with whatever project we are involved in at the moment.

You don't really work together with Clint Eastwood. I mean, he takes the script and he shoots it - and he shoots it very faithfully.

You're working with other people and sometimes it doesn't work out the way you want, and sometimes you didn't realise what a mistake you've made until you see it projected.

Coaching is salesmanship. Coaching is winning players over and convincing them they have to play together. It takes a team conviction to play together to make things work.

Say what you will, making a marriage work is a woman's business.

To progress we must do the work as individuals, but then we must come together and work together.

Bad things happen when people work together. Everything goes out of control.

My philosophy is that the people around us are there doing as much work if not more work behind the scenes and they're the last people you would ever be unkind to, so I hope I'm not a diva off stage.

But it just comes down to trying to get the work out there and however the team fits together then that's the way it sort of plays into itself.

There is also the guitar player Pat Metheny with whom I'd like to work with: he is so elegant and so emotional when he plays that I am sure that, together, we could make a good team.

You cannot be effective if those who work for you are not. So building their effectiveness ought to be a priority.

Listen to other people. Respect the other people in the band, and work together to create something that is larger than the sum of its parts. And have fun.

I'm amazed that movies ever get finished at all - much less come out good once in a while. It's an awful lot of work and it can go wrong a thousand different ways.

I've had a couple of guys that I've had co-produce records with me through my career, and it's fun to work with a co-producer.

My favorite thing in the whole is getting to work with the actors.

When somebody would come in with a sketch that was not so good, you figured out in a room how to make that sketch work.

Men work together, whether they work together or apart.

I can't imagine ever going back to working with somebody else.

In racing, we have a better chance of it happening quicker because we have attracted good people to come to work for us. It's the beginning of a great adventure, and we're looking forward to it.

As a director myself, you want to have colleagues and collaborators that respect your authority as the director. I'm very comfortable with that, and I've done a lot of work in second unit.