Collaboration Quotes

When I was a kid it was much more difficult. You're trying to understand what the director wants. It's a learning process. Now, you go in and it's more of a collaboration.

Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.

Writing a screen play with a group of collaborators is like the Lennon McCartney collaboration .... sometimes one or two people do more than others on certain parts of the process and vice versa.

I learn a lot from my experiences and collaborations. Most of my collaborations are meant for me to learn.

There are probably times where the creative process is not helped by collaboration.

Something as radical as a war can only be understood (if at all) through the collaboration of journalists, academia, artists and, of course, people.

Collaboration is really important.

Global collaboration is something that Wiki mastered in a small way and here we can master it in a big way.

The company owner doesn't need to win. The best idea does.

We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.

The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.

The future of cinema and communications is all about collaboration and the decentralized control of storytelling. We're all part of the story; we can all contribute and participate.

I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.

What happens is that the experience of writers working together and the idea of creative collaboration is so delightful, but it has been relegated to TV.

A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.

Those who can ask without shame are viewing themselves in collaboration with-rather than in competition with-the world.

The problem is, when you're working with orchestras, you only get the orchestra for about two hours before the performance to pull it all together, and that doesn't sound like a real collaboration.

Combating climate change requires collaboration with many levels of government.

It's very nourishing and collaborative - kind of the true essence of what one would want an artistic collaboration to be [the collaboration with Oprah Winfrey].

I'm a very big believer in collaboration and teamwork.

I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction.

Twitter represents a collective collaboration that manifests our ability to unconsciously connect kindred voices through the experiences that move us. As such, Twitter is a human seismograph.

There is a central difference between the old and new economies: the old industrial economy was driven by economies of scale; the new information economy is driven by the economics of networks.

Everyone hates their picture being taken and they're nervous and they're bringing all of that. When I meet with them they realize it is a collaboration and they look forward to coming back.

I've never written anything that wasn't somewhat of a collaboration. I don't know how people do it on their own.

This is my first collaboration [with Mary Hamill] so I'm going to learn how it's going to work.

I'd like to do more collaborations because collaboration creates different viewpoints.

Collaboration is not an absolute good.

We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.

The collaboration wish list is huge, very long. It goes from people like Elton John, for whom I have an unbelievable amount of respect, to Snoop Dogg, whom I also respect a great deal.

I've done a lot of collaboration over the years, but right now I'm enjoying writing by myself and just being me again for a while.

Denzel Washington: I like the collaboration, I like seeing people do well, so I really plan to direct the rest of my days.

Collaboration is a nice change of pace from the often solitary nature of the writer's craft.

One of my dream collaborations is to work with Sade. I would love to work with Andre 3000, Miguel.

Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far future, when we don't know what people are going to think about yet.

The amazing thing about an artistic collaboration is that it is as intense and intimate as a romantic one. Sometimes even more so.

I like style. For Dior, I did more of a collaboration shoot, not just a single image - so there was more to it. It's a very prestigious brand. I like their style and feel like their style is mine.

Who approaches collaboration with agenda in terms of content? The agenda is only in terms of process, which is generosity, listening, careful thinking.

There is no guiding principle, because the work that is created in collaborations should be created from its own principles.

I am working on a list for collaborations and it's just another way to share your artistic talent with other artist.

I want to collaborate. I'm a big believer in collaboration.

What I love about making movies is that it's a collaboration. It's one of the most rewarding things, to create something and have someone show you something that you didn't see, and vice versa.

America is best when we work in collaboration with our allies. America is best when we are actually standing up to evil in this world. And ISIS, make no mistake about it, is an evil in this world.

I've done loads of collaborations and I'm never totally happy with the outcome because it feels like you're compromising something of yourself in it.

Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like.

The movie industry is one big collaboration. Music gives me that freedom to create things straight from my heart and my mind.

When you have humor, you have a base for collaboration. It is very important.

As an actor, I want to give in to the collaboration with the director because I don't want my work to be all the same. The more this can be done with comfort, the more variety my work has had.

Adapting a book is essentially a collaboration, whether the author is alive or dead.

I don't do a lot of collaborations that I don't believe in. Actually, I don't do any collaborations that I don't believe in.