Rei Kawakubo Quotes

I don't know if it'd be any time soon but I'd really like to work on a collaboration with somebody - I always have ideas for stuff like that.

I'm interested in good collaborations and in working with directors who bring something new and interesting out of you.

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.

There's a synergy with Dre and me.

Working with Atanu again after 'Mayurakshi' is quite a challenge for me.

Jeph Loeb has been great to work with, and he's been really supportive of some really bizarre ideas I've had.

I get really excited about collaborating because by the end of the day you have something that you never thought you'd have. I was really happy about writing "Bad News" and a bunch of other stuff on the record that came out so well.

For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.

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.

Instead of competing, all we have to do is create.

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.

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.

You have to really work with someone who you think is going to be a collaborator, who you think understands what you want to do with this movie and how you want to do it.

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.'

Creative collaboration is awesome.

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.

It is so killer to collaborate with someone who gets what you're trying to say.

I collaborated on most of my dance numbers, literally 50/50, with the choreographers I worked with.

But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.

I don't really have a dream collaboration.

As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that.

Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing.

Film is a collaborative art form. If you're not being collaborative, you probably shouldn't be working in film. You don't do it on your own. People who understand that, cultivate that, get the best results.

That's what I've always wanted to do - work with my favorite writers and make something from scratch with them that we can feel like didn't exist before we came in the room.