Mick Ebeling Quotes

If you have somebody who's brilliant and highly creative with a different point of view than you have, and a very different intellectual background, great things can happen.

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 think you can write very good comedy without a partner, but what I love about it, working with a partner, is that you get to places you'd never get on your own. It's like when God was designing the world and decided we couldn't have children without a partner; it was a way of mixing up the genes so you'd get a more interesting product.

The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.

It's really lonely trying to build something by yourself. It's good to have thought partners to bounce ideas off of.

Everyone has something to learn from one another. When different disciplines meet, it creates this amazing unpredictability.

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

It's interesting to see what people who you find talented come up with, so you work with them. Sometimes ideas come along quicker cause they'll come up with something and you'll be like, "It would have taken me forever to get to that point!" Because you're talking together, your brains are moving faster.

Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.

If you put enough smart people together in one space, good things happen.

Creative collaboration is awesome.

Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

I also feel that the only thing more gratifying than working with someone who you've worked well with is working with someone new and coming up with something great.

I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'

I love working with other people and bouncing ideas off them.

If the work requires smart, talented, creative people, then more than anything, you want to enable folks on the team to create.

Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click.

Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together.

I keep a creative group around me.

That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.

The natives of Silicon Valley learned long ago that when you share your knowledge with someone else, one plus one usually equals three. You both learn each other's ideas, and you come up with new ones.

The fun for me in collaboration is, one, working with other people just makes you smarter; that's proven.

One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative.

I'm at my best when I'm working with really talented people, and I'm there to gently suggest or guide or inspire or contribute whatever I can to their effort.