Nicole Kidman Quotes

I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.

I believe in, 'I do it my way, and you do it your way, and then see what works' pattern. I think that comes with me having worked as an assistant director earlier, which I really enjoyed.

I believe you can work with anybody.

I'm a guy that wants the movie to work. So whatever it takes or whatever you got to do - I'm happy to do.

I'm just not a purist. You set goals and you have to work with everyone to figure out how to get what you can.

My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

I just love to collaborate with people who take my ideas real serious, and they don't put up walls around them.

Any part I do is a marriage of the words - what the playwright or producer or show runner's vision is - to how I would play it. It took me a while to get rid of 'Oh, they want it this way, so I'm going to do it how they want it.'

I play well with everybody.

I would like to work with whoever would like to have me.

When you collaborate, you have to be willing to scrap a lot.

I tried working with the best of directors and producers. I tried being selective, but things didn't work out. Now, I am open to working with anybody and everybody who is good. Or I'll try to make it good. That suits me.

I can work with anyone.

But, you always have to listen to everyone, because I'm not always right and other people have great ideas, too. I think that makes great moviemaking.

I always kind of did my own thing, but it got me into trouble a lot, so I started listening to what people were telling me to do to show I was a team player.

The worst thing when you're working is to say, 'I have a question,' and the other person goes, 'No! This is what it is.' That kind of rigidity is very challenging because musicals are constantly mutating.

For me, any team that wants me to be part of their club, I'm all for it.

There's one rule that I have on my movies, which is that anything that you want to do, you can do. But! There's a flip side to that, which is that anything I want you to do, give it a try also.

I'm willing to play any position.

You have to be open to other people's ideas, and you can't be too married to your own.

I wanted to be open. On the last project, "Affection," I co-wrote everything. Sometimes, I think, it's smart to step away and be open.

Cooperation - To get cooperation, you must give cooperation. Always seek to find the best way rather than insisting on your own way.

You must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.

There is no single approach that actors take to their craft. And the best thing you learn is that you have to really listen and respect each actor's own process and own method, and that takes a kind of delicate, non-imposing patience and openness, I think, to get the very best out of the people you work with.

Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to get to the best possible cut.