Joey Kramer Quotes

I think that's the beauty of the collaboration with a team. In the end, it never turns out how you imagine, it always is this amalgam of bringing in different perspectives.

I always have to re-learn the important lesson that the work is always stronger when I listen and take input from others.

Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere

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.'

I love it when other people can come up with ideas and tell me what to do.

What I'm saying is individuals have better ideas if they're connected to rich, diverse networks of other individuals. If you put yourself in an environment with lots of different perspectives, you yourself are going to have better, sharper, more original ideas. It's not that the network is smart.

There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.

One of the great things I learned from how cooperative theater is, you can't be too precious about your ideas.

But, you always have to listen to everyone, because I'm not always right and other people have great ideas, too. I think that makes great moviemaking.

The recipe to our success is that you have a bunch of different guys who listen to a lot of different music.

The Young Bucks and myself are always full of ideas.

We don't ever write stuff individually and say, 'OK, this is gonna be the song.' We bring in ideas in their rawest form and bounce them around to find the thing that is bigger than any individual's idea.

That's what's so wonderful about collaborating: your idea can explode and become something else.

The best design teams are not people who are exactly the same...otherwise you're just sitting and telling, 'You're fabulous.' 'No, you're fabulous.'

Senior men have no monopoly on great ideas. Nor do creative people. Some of the best ideas come from account executives, researchers and others. Encourage this, you need all the ideas you can get.

I think ideas should be flying about and banging into each other. It is a kind of energy. If you occupy static positions, then things sort of ossify.

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

I would not necessarily say that scientists and artists need to collaborate with one another, but it would be helpful for them to talk to one another to, perhaps, give rise to specific ideas that may or may not be carried out together.

Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate.

I just want to listen and build relationships with as many of my colleagues as possible.

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people.

I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.

I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

As a director, you're a bit of a dictator. But I feel that you're a better director if you're open to other people's ideas. It means that it's tougher: you have to be in a choosing process; you have to put the ego aside. As long as everybody's aiming in the same direction... I'm open to my main partners in the film crew.