Robert Sheckley Quotes

The most significant pieces for me are the ones that come from my drapings. It's emotional because they are created by my hand and then become a collaborative process in the atelier.

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

Making movies was a real weird kind of adult experience. In a way it was like MIT, in that it was a great education. The big lesson is, people are people. They're smart, funny, creative people, but they're people.

Fashion is much more collaborative than one might think. You have to have an idea and vision, and you have to communicate that vision to a team of people, and you have to create an environment that allows those people to give the best that they can give.

Creative collaboration is awesome.

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.

In truth, I have always been amazed by a group of people who all work toward putting one person's vision forward - that's an interesting story for me.

The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.

Some people are brilliant on the first take, some people are brilliant on the fourth take, and when you are doing a group scene, you kind of have to figure that out.

I just really love producing. I love being able to be part of a solution. I love being able to create opportunities for other people to do what they do, to be part of the collaborative process that is filmmaking and television making.

Working with Atanu again after 'Mayurakshi' is quite a challenge for me.

Mistakes happen because so many minds work on one film.

Jeph Loeb has been great to work with, and he's been really supportive of some really bizarre ideas I've had.

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

I'm very fortunate in that all the mediums I work in are extremely collaborative. Movies are probably the most solitary on a day to day basis, but even then you have producers and studio executives to work with and bounce ideas off of.

For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.

I love producing, I love bringing things together.

My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people.

It's like a cast of actors; you're all working together closely under pressure to produce something everyday. And when we put up an issue, it's like the curtains opening on a new play. I really like that daily sense of surprise.

The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.

I think most co-directors and co-writers just hold hands.

Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.

The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels.

It's a product of two poles - there's the pole of the one who makes the work, and the pole of the one who looks at it. I give the latter as much importance as the one who makes it.

Television is much more collaborative in many ways than prose.