Alan Menken Quotes

I like the idea of collaboration - it pushes you. It's a richer experience.

Collaborations aren't easy, but you definitely get something highly different than had you done it on your own. That's part of the experience.

Cooperation is just like two pagodas - one hardware and one software. Combined, we can take the leadership position in the world.

We've got unmatched talent, innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, so when we work together, we can all benefit.

The reward of a successful collaboration is a thing that cannot be produced by either of the parties working alone. It is akin to the benefits of sex with a partner, as opposed to masturbation. The latter is fun, but you show me anyone who has gotten a baby from playing with him or herself, and I'll show you an ugly baby, with just a whole bunch of knuckles.

One of my philosophies as a director is to listen to other people's great ideas because they'll help make you better.

The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be.

The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.

One is, that they will feel about you that you're going to make something wonderful for them. And they help you by expressing themselves. Not telling you how to do it, but encouraging you and accepting your vision and working with you on that kind of a level.

Collaboration is the way to go. It's very timely and fun to do.

I believe that if creative people are open and generous enough when working with each other, a lot more can be learned and achieved by both parties. That's what it's all about, trying to produce the best work possible on any given project.

The more you work, the more people see your work and would like to work with you, and vice versa.

I am interested in the interaction of a group of people who have a common goal, or a common obsession, each contributing something unique to make something greater than the sum of its parts. I don't know why, but from day one, that has interested me.

I really challenge every actor at the beginning of a process, and I always say, 'I have an idea that I'm going to bring to the table. I hope and expect that you will have an idea and bring it to the table. But the way I really want to work is that together we're going to have a third idea that is better than either of our ideas.'

In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet.

I love collaborating.

I've always considered myself a workaholic... The way I work, I have to turn myself upside down and hang myself by my ankles and wring myself out like a wet sweater, and I have to do that with other people, too, because I think that's where something good comes out.

The people that you work with, the organizations that are committed to the same objectives. If they know that you're in it together, and you're working towards the same objectives, and you agree on how to do more with less, you can actually have a greater impact.

At Pixar, 'Wall-E' was our ninth film, and they've all been successes - more than that, they've all really touched people. Everybody wonders, 'How do you do it?' Well, how do you not do it? You just work hard.

There's no better feeling than just going in and just working with someone and what comes out is something that the world knows about.

A good head has one hundred hands.

If you want me to work with you, then come with an idea. Come with music.

What I love is the openness of collaboration.

When I think about 'Beast Mode,' that's what I think about. I don't think about just a hard project; they just created some art together.

As a songwriter, you always look for guys that you can write good with. Show up, have an idea, knock it out of the park.