Black Thought Quotes

Joel Little and I have this certain chemistry we have when we work together.

I see my actors as my collaborators.

My collaborations tend to be pretty organic. It starts off with me being a fan first.

I'm lucky to be collaborating with a lot of great songwriters/producers - and it's all about chemistry!

When you work on a graphic novel or a film with people you've been together through a lot and you've exposed your secrets and weaker sides to each other.

I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it's me who has to come up with all the ideas.

But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.

When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour, and they were terrible until Robin came back, and then everything worked out.

I don't even know what a traditional producer is or does. I feel like the job is like being a coach, building good work habits and building trust. You want to get to a point where you can say anything and talk about anything. There needs to be a real connection.

Actors and directors work on things together. That's how I like to work, anyway. I don't want to be told what to do. I want to share it with someone and work it out together.

Taylor Goldsmith and I hit it off big time, and so we started writing some songs together.

I like writing with people. I think the times that I've closed myself off to not writing with people, I haven't gotten the best product because I haven't had anyone to go back and forth with and really discuss what's going on in my life, what's going on in their life. It's so important to have that connection.

You don't have to be best friends with people to make music.

When I'm in the studio with a writer, I don't mind for them to take the lead and show me something new.

I think if you can get the right bunch of people together, and you're in the room and it just feels right, then the music will come.

We tend to just think about how hard it is to never have thrown to a guy. That is true, every guy has their own way of doing things and you build a rapport with guys throughout the course of the year and throughout practice and all of that.

I only collaborate with the people I rock with in life, period. I rock with people where I really respect their craft and respect what they're doing. That's what collaboration should start from.

So much of inspiration comes from collaboration with other musicians.

Filmmaking is such a collaboration. At a certain point, I suppose you do have to let go and trust the people you're working with.

I think there's something in collaboration - the fact that you can sit there and bounce ideas off of someone. It definitely matters who the person is, because certain people... The act of collaboration, where you can talk to someone, hang out, get ideas going, there is something in that. That's similar between everyone. But I think every individual collaborator is different, because they have different brains and emotions and ways of working, so it changes. Definitely.

I'd rather work with guys that have time to live with you, and let it gel.

It was invaluable to have a dear friend who you have known for over a decade, be a partner in a film like Titanic. To have somebody that talented to work against, who's also your friend and who you know you have the best intentions for and vice versa, and who you intrinsically trust to give you their forthright honest opinion about what we're both doing - all that's something you can't really buy.

I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.

I like working with writer-directors because you can solve problems right there.

I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.