Top 75 Collaborator Quotes

A collaboration, you have to collaborate, meet in the middle, yield to the other collaborator, and that’s a wonderful thing.

It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I’m a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be directed. It’s hard for me to shift gears.

I saw ‘Joy Luck Club‘ when it came out, so that was early mid-’90s, and I remember seeing it with my long-time collaborator, Mina Shum. We’d just done ‘Double Happiness,’ and we saw this movie, and we were weeping. Like, shuddering weeping. Weeping more than really the film deserved.

A lot of my creative ideas begin in the pub, talking through possibilities with collaborators.

Marc Jacobs is full of creative people and Louis Vuitton is again a name on the door, a name that has existed for many years but I’m a collaborator there and I bring in other people, other artists and I work with a great creative design team.

What Joanna and Solange and Kanye all had in common was a mental image of what the sound is supposed to be. As a collaborator, my goal has to be to help them get toward that mental image. That was cool.

Working with anyone is easy as long as you realise that your collaborator has the understanding and experience even if he is younger to you.

‘Collaborator’ is a hostage tragicomedy, but it’s also, kind of, everything I know about post-war America. Well, not everything, but it does reference a lot of the post-war period.

A very good editor is almost a collaborator.

I have been very fortunate since ‘Ice Age‘ to make movies that somehow charm audiences. I think that the key to it for me has been coming up with the right ideas but, more importantly, choosing the right collaborators and artists to execute those ideas.

I am interested in seeing how a certain situation can develop with potential accidents. First, I am inspired by the acts of potential collaborators. It tends to be an action they have already done in a different context. I am very clear about the rules of the game, but once it’s launched, I don’t intervene at all.

I have the great good fortune that one of my collaborators in work, Anne Case, is also my collaborator in life.

I have been lucky to find very good collaborators who have taught me a lot, have introduced me to several new fields of mathematics, or have shown me new insights.

I really value the skill and sensitivity of my collaborators, and I am really interested in – perhaps more so than if I was a male director – the hair, makeup and the textures of the fabric and the wallpaper.

Some collaborators might join forces in certain cities or special concerts. I’m excited to share the stage with some prestigious people that I love and respect.

As a film composer, you have to be a good collaborator.

I like befriending my collaborators because I’d rather make music with people I like than people I pretend to like.

I like it when someone tells me ‘I don’t agree.’ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‘Oh, how great, how great, how great,’ that’s not useful.

As a filmmaker, I’m a collaborator first.

Fashion gave me my start, and that will always be my home. I’ll always be so grateful for all my collaborators and friends I’ve made there, but I’m so excited to dive head first into just being a working actor.

I’ve had wonderful collaborators. They’re very different, just as actors are. Working on a show with Nathan Lane is different from working on a show with Chita Rivera. It keeps you on your toes because it’s different every time.

You go through this business and you meet people that you bond with, and you get to go make movies with them. It’s wonderful. What I’ve always dreamt of, in my career, is to have a brotherhood of collaborators, and go in and out of working with them. I’m just starting to get that, and it’s really lovely.

Since he was 17 years old in Atlanta, I think people always knew that there was something different about Key. He’s obviously been able to adapt to so many sounds and time periods in his own way, which is clear from the long list of collaborators; but he has always retained an effortlessly weird perspective.

I’m a born collaborator. This is what I was born to do, really.

Let’s start with the athlete, Nike‘s original and most important collaborator. To us, everything starts with the insight. That’s why we work with the deepest roster of athletes, to gain the most profound understanding of what’s needed to perform.

No, we are not tyrants on set, and we are kind of come at it very much as collaborators and not just with each other but everybody and particularly the actors.

Why is it that I can remember so easily the lyrics to the opening theme song of ‘Gilligan’s Island?’ Why do I remember these trivial things, and I can’t remember the names of important collaborators?

In a collaborator, I always look for someone who’s going to push me a little bit.

The biggest thing I have realized was that you have to choose your collaborators very carefully, and that not everybody can like you. The process of filmmaking is so difficult, there’s no point in doing it unless you can do it the way you want.

It’s great to work with friends. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn’t, but everybody goes into it knowing that. Like, ‘We might be really good friends, but we might be terrible collaborators.’

I’ve been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.

We were kind of arrogant when we started and became really humbled as we were doing architecture. It’s really hard to work with budgets and deadlines and all of these collaborators and all of these voices and special interests.

I’ll always work with my collaborator in the room so I have a reaction on a note-by-note basis. I know in my gut when something works for me, and I’ll fight for it, but I’m a very easy re-writer.

I’m a great collaborator. I really am. I will steal anyone’s idea if it is a good one.

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

I’m not a good collaborator in general.

We only want autonomous collaborators that are incentivized to make or break their own income.

I tend to choose collaborators who are more courageous than I am. I think it’s good for me.

If you look at somebody like Bach, he didn’t need collaborators to write for keyboards, cello, violin or anything else. I feel the same way about my music. The times that I have worked with other people, I’ve been very unhappy with the results.

Throughout my scientific career, my wife has been my most constant collaborator. Her experimental skill made major contributions to the work; she has eased for me beyond measure the difficulties of communication that accompany deafness; her encouragement and fortitude have been my strongest supports.

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

I found filmmaking to be a very practical art form. It’s about figuring out how to create within the very practical limitations/constraints of time, money, and large groups of collaborators.

Producers should have the courage of their convictions. See your project through to its fruition. Seek help and be generous enough to take on collaborators and not be territorial as you’re learning.

We feel on social media that we can speak to each other in a certain way. In politics we treat each other as enemies instead of collaborators. This hate has extended to these horrible and hateful acts.

I didn’t know anything about music when I started a band. I barely knew how to play a guitar. I didn’t know how to produce records. I learned how to play bass guitar and keyboards in Rilo Kiley. I picked up a lot from my collaborators.

It seems like no one has friends in New York, they just have collaborators or co-workers.

For me, it’s not about being the best designer. I’m interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.

Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you’ve got to wait ’til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.

The only way to conduct an effective collaboration is to debate the things upon which you disagree. If one doesn’t manage to bring the other around to his point of view, then whichever collaborator feels the most passionate about the thing being debated ought to get his way.

Solange’s new album, ‘A Seat at the Table‘, is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.

However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.

You have to have doubts. I have collaborators I work with. I listen, and then I decide. That’s how it works.

What do I look for in a collaborator? Pretty much anyone who asks me to do something.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can’t.

If you’re going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it’s better to write with collaborators.

When I was a kid, I was a really bad collaborator. I was pretty introverted.

Honestly, I’ve just made music so long by myself, in some ways I don’t feel I’m a very good collaborator.

I have many friends and close collaborators working with Maker, which inspired my decision to join forces with the team, and couldn’t be more excited to be part of the many exciting things happening at Maker and Disney.

I’ve always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

You’ve got to understand when a collaborator isn’t satisfied anymore.

We need to have a vision of the world we want to create so that we can see ourselves as collaborators with future generations in the project of shaping it.

My favorite collaborator is Dane Laffrey, who designed the set for ‘Once on This Island,’ but we’ve worked together since high school, when he was my roommate.

I’m a collaborator. I know I don’t know everything. I don’t want to know everything.

I’m always working with other collaborators.

If you are not able to transmit what you’re trying to achieve to your collaborators, you will only have minions – or morons.

What I’ve learned in my career as an actor is that you’re only as good as your collaborators. The process is many things, but it is wholly collaborative, particularly with something like ‘Westworld,’ which is a 10-episode-per-season gig, and we’re just now on the 7th episode.

Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!

In war you’re either a collaborator or you’re a resistor. I mean you don’t get to be neutral.

Hollywood is, of course, loaded with egos, but it’s amazing to see how, despite the egos, those collaborators pull together and focus on telling a story rather than butt heads and sabotage what is extremely hard work and investment just because their ego apparently demands it.

It is also very engaging – and a delight – to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.

At base, the ugly meaning of collaborator carries an implication of treason: betrayal of one’s nation, of one’s ideology, of one’s morality, of one’s values.

I was constantly reading books about how to direct, and asking directors, ‘How do you do it?’ And when I finally actually started doing the work, it seemed like you have to be decisive and have an opinion. But also you have to be a good collaborator and hire the right people to shore up whatever your skill set is.

I’ve learned a lot from Dave Stewart; he’s a serial collaborator. He’s co-written songs with more people than anybody I know – like the most incredible people too.

Composing easy? I find it easy if – big if – the idea is right, if I have the right collaborator, and if my collaborator is in the room. I like my collaborator to be in the room.