Cary Fukunaga Quotes

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.

I approach any collaboration I do differently.

By collaborating, you can do very interesting things.

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

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.

Partnership is the way. Dictatorial win-lose is so old-school.

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.'

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.

Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a very diverse group and the result is always more interesting than something I could have done by myself.

Basically, the way I do it is I get to work with a bunch of people; get a bunch of great people together, and you'll be able to get something cool on the other side.

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.

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

Musicals are very collaborative. Unless you find somebody who wants to do something with you and has equal commitment, it's not going to work.

When we are all together, we will have a future that is far greater than whatever we could do separate from one another.

Collaborations have no meaning if 1 + 1 does not equal much more than 2.

Whenever I've collaborated with anyone in the past it's just happened really, I've never actively sought it out.

The whole point of collaboration is that you give and take from each other, and that's how you create things that are totally new.

What's interesting about collaborations is the possibility for one plus one to equal three.

I am always thinking that some interesting possibility, some accidental synergy, could occur in a collaboration, and people seem to like it.

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

No one needs to have their way all the time, first of all, but second of all, if you find the right partner, as a couple, you're going to create something together that is going to be better than what you could do or have individually.

Collaboration is being open to each other's ideas and benefiting from each other's perspectives in an open way. Collaboration is all about rewriting and rewriting and rewriting and helping each other to constantly improve a piece. And, it's also about spurring each other on to doing really great, hard work - it's easier to do it in a collaboration than on your own.

I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.

Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

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.