Wim Wenders Quotes

You must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.

As a writer, you're really in control of almost everything. That's not the case in TV. You have to be prepared to work with a lot of people to make something happen, and you got to be prepared, at least in the beginning, to not be too good at your specific task.

I'm just not a purist. You set goals and you have to work with everyone to figure out how to get what you can.

When you collaborate, you have to be willing to scrap a lot.

You have to be open to other people's ideas, and you can't be too married to your own.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

I believe you can work with anybody.

My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it.

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 would like to work with whoever would like to have me.

I'm somebody who doesn't feel the need to be in the driver's seat all the time. I appreciate the perspective of being in the passenger's seat sometimes, and I feel fortunate for that because I've learned a lot from that perspective.

I love to be the lead, but you can't always be the lead.

Sometimes, having laughingly accepted some critical objection, he [Lenin] will alter the wording that he himself has just put forward in all confidence

I came to believe that a leader isn't good because they're right; they're good because they're willing to learn and to trust.

A collaboration, you have to collaborate, meet in the middle, yield to the other collaborator, and that's a wonderful thing.

I've got my own mind, and I'll talk about it, but I'm willing to listen. I'm very balanced like that. If you don't want a guy who's balanced, who wants to win, and can bring people together well... I don't know.

I can work with anyone.

I am willing to do business and I'm willing to play ball with anyone, for I am very open-minded.

I am extremely malleable as an actor, but I also know how to get away with doing things the way I want, even if the director disagrees.

There's one rule that I have on my movies, which is that anything that you want to do, you can do. But! There's a flip side to that, which is that anything I want you to do, give it a try also.

I take great pride in being able to work with anybody.

From collaborating with other people, you make concessions, and those concessions are great because sometimes you are definitely wrong.

Cooperation - To get cooperation, you must give cooperation. Always seek to find the best way rather than insisting on your own way.

An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.