Jenova Chen Quotes

I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.

A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.

Collaboration is much like a birth. The song that springs forth resembles each one of us to a degree, but it's the kind of thing that would never be born from just one of us sitting down with a guitar.

In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.

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.

I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.

The actors have to be able to feed each other and inspire each other.

Film is a collaborative art form. If you're not being collaborative, you probably shouldn't be working in film. You don't do it on your own. People who understand that, cultivate that, get the best results.

The thing I like to stress about TV is that it's a team exercise. You really can't have too much of an ego.

I've always been a very collaborative person, and I think 'Cop Car' and all the people I worked with who made it possible is a good example of that.

Collaborative is my favorite word in moviemaking.

This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.

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

When you work with a DeNiro or Hoffman, they love what they do so much that there's never any competitive vibe. It's more about how do we do this thing together.

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.

Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.

Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration.

I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

Films are not mathematics - that's the first thing you need to understand. At least, that's how I feel. They are not words on paper. Films are made with people, with teams and with individual bundles of creativity coming together to fulfill the vision of an individual who is the director of the film.

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.

The funny thing about directing is that you have your own opinions, but it's a collaboration. Directing is a group effort. Even though you might think something works, the smartest thing you can do as a director is try and weigh the opinions of the people around you.

I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter. And the rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic, and the best idea wins.