Collaborative Quotes

I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently. Most of it is because in my band, Incubus, it is very much a collaborative effort. I do what I do in the band, and everyone plays their respective parts, but in the end, we are sort of a democratic process.

I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.

In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.

People tend to work in teams, in a collaborative way, in an informal network. If you create an environment like that, it's much more effective and much more efficient.

Tim also has enough confidence so that it always looks like a Tim Burton film, but it really is collaborative. You're allowed to do it your way but of course he's always going to choose his way.

GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do.

The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.

'The Simpsons' is an especially collaborative show.

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling.

I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.

Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to the writers work together toward the same goal, and everyone chimes in on everything.

Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.

In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.

I have long believed these types of collaborative agreements are a far better approach to federal land management than the contentious battles that too often sidetrack proper resource management.

My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort.

But I'm pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.

There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.

You know, it takes a while to get used to - it's a whole group of people with all these ideas and after you sort of navigate your way through the first few episodes it becomes collaborative and creative.

I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show.

The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.

Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.

Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike.

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

Further, science is a collaborative effort.

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.