David Lloyd Quotes

It's valuable to me as an artist and actor to explore all kinds of outlets. So if a local filmmaker in Milwaukee had a good story, I'd be part of it in a second.

Working with other artists and sharing your passions is great.

I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with so many great collaborators in my lifetime.

When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes. It comes down to people's personalities and individual energies.

I love working with different artist with different styles and different producers with different sounds, creativity is everything.

I made a conscious effort that I just wanted to work with people that were going to make me better and that was the main thing - writers, directors, in whatever medium.

I think different musical collaborators bring out different qualities in my songs and I like that.

All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites.

I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.

I've gotten to work with some wonderful directors and people who have been great teachers to me.

One is, that they will feel about you that you're going to make something wonderful for them. And they help you by expressing themselves. Not telling you how to do it, but encouraging you and accepting your vision and working with you on that kind of a level.

I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic.

I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.

I love getting into a studio with a bunch of friends. When the day's done, we've made something. We recognize that we're from different walks of the music industry, and there's no reason we shouldn't be collaborating. That's what I'm trying to create with thenewno2 - a sense of community.

I actually like the collaboration of working with different artists.

Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a very diverse group and the result is always more interesting than something I could have done by myself.

One thing I have throughout my career, it felt like I did my best to align myself with quality artists, quality work, and it is a situation of steel sharpening steel.

Some of the best art in the world is collaborative, a mix of voices that are stronger together than separate. Take the Beatles, for example. Or every great movie ever made. We like to say they're the director's vision, but really, they're huge collaborations between directors, writers, actors, even producers.

As far as an actor-director connection, I think those can develop, and when they do, they're really great, and you just cultivate it like you would any relationship or friendship. If you find that something special, it helps down the line when you want to do more projects with each other.

I get to play with all these different players who don't necessarily approach music always the same way that I might. So I learn a lot.

I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with great artists from all over the world.

I've never done songs with people just for the sake of the great combination. I've always done songs with friends.

I just enjoy working with really wonderful actors and amazing creative people and I hope to keep doing that, no matter where.

The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.

I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.