Quotes About Collaboration

When we did that kind of stuff our only rule was... Well, we didn't have any rules, really, but my rule, because I was the drinker of the group, was not at any time of the day before the night we're working.

When it's low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.

When you're a writer on a show, your job is to write in the show runner's voice, really.

I've worked with David O. Russell.

Being brothers is why it's worked so long. I have that security working with Russell. Working on my own, I'd be really nervous - I wouldn't be able to take it.

I think it's fine when the mayor of the biggest city in Russia consults the president.

I can't even begin to express the joy I get from writing songs, both on my own and with others, I hold it all sacred.

If someone is going to spend a whole game marking you, then there may be games when I will have to sacrifice myself for the team and take them away and create space for a team-mate.

I'm a team player who needs to work a lot and sacrifice myself for the success of the group.

We all have to sacrifice a part of ourselves, including the players, for the good of the team.

You have to sacrifice something for the best, for the team.

One day, I was taken into a room with 25 animators, all working on Sadness. They asked me a lot of questions, and they got something of the way I move into the character.

I like to create an atmosphere where actors feel safe enough to take risks.

Yeah, we're definitely not opposed to working with famous vocalists, but we really want to make sure that it's all about the sound of the voice and how appropriate it is for the song, and not kind of 'getting together with people just for the sake of it' kind of thing.

What I realized is that no matter what you do, you're not alone in life. Every accomplishment worth a salt, there is someone else there who played a role and took a part.

To achieve great goals, you all have to walk in the same direction.

In winning companies, everybody pulls in the same direction.

If we don't have the actors, or you get the sense that some of the other people involved in making the movie don't necessarily see the movie the way you see it - all those elements, for us, we like having those things feel like they're moving in the same direction.

It's important that everyone rows in the same direction because I need all my players, those who don't get much playing time too.

If there's a problem we can talk to anyone in the band. There's other people around us. Everyone in the band are on the same level. We know and help each other.

Find like-minded people who are on the same page as you, and then lift each other up.

Certainly as a director you want to be working with people who are on the same page as you and that you can trust and get along with.

It's important when you're coparenting to make sure that you're on the same page.

It's nice to have worked with someone for so long that you're always on the same page.