Damon Hill Quotes

We had built up a team in Edmonton that really knew who each other was from a personal standpoint and from a professional standpoint. Our nucleus had stayed together for a long time.

Luckily, I've had a very good working rapport will all my co-stars. Nobody has complained about me. No one's ever said they don't want to work with me.

Usually I'm trying to work with people that I've worked with before, so we have a certain amount of know-how and what we're going to do together.

Improv relies just as much on listening as it does you delivering dialogue. That's the hard for some people. Some people just concentrate on what they're going to say, and they're not listening. You have to listen in order to see where the other person is going to.

You know honestly, I enjoy working with everyone because remember, these were all real pros that had been around the business a long time.

Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with.

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others. Having studied so long trying to master myself, the biggest challenge was learning about the other person's work.

I've been lucky enough to work with some of the best TV directors there are, and I've learned from how they had to handle when things don't go quite according to plan.

I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me.

I've had a great experience with pretty much everybody I've worked with.

You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with.

A huge amount of negotiations and diplomacy has nothing to do with bartering or arguing but is just trying to get everyone [doing the negotiating] on the same page. It takes yours, days, even weeks sometimes.

My mantra is, I want to work with people that I like to hang out with, who are smart, where I can add value, that I think is an interesting space.

I don't like to work with people I don't have any connection with.

I'm very used to being in India now and to working with actors and directors I'm comfortable with because I know them already.

When you know someone, and you get to work with them, automatically there is this comfort zone which comes in.

For me, it's important to have a team and coach and manager that I know, and they know me, so they are not coming to me with everything.

Sometimes you're going to have someone on your team who's just not comfortable with being open. You have to ask yourself, 'Is this person going to allow us to be a real team?' Maybe they're not right for your team. You have to be willing to lose someone sometimes.

Different teams put me in different situations.

I find it very difficult to work with people I don't like; I can't do that.

Of course it's always easy when you work with people that worked together, or you work with people that you worked with before, because you develop over years some sort of shorthand of communion that is always very valuable.

Actors tend to be quite good at getting on with people. If you’re an arsehole, people don’t want to work with you. You won’t get hired Well, there are a few arseholes.

When you make many films with the same actors you can develop a special understanding with them. I love working with people I know and that I trust.

The normal routine is always the same thing whether it's on a new movie or a new job - there's always a process of getting to know one another. I think part of what makes movies special is that it is a relatively intimate environment and it's pretty short-lived - you get to know one another very quickly.

I don't think it's a prize when actors and directors or writers and actors work together more than once. You have a trust and a shorthand and a lot of times you even reach the point, where in the process, you don't even have to talk.