Matthew Williamson Quotes

I love collaborating.

By collaborating, you can do very interesting things.

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 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.

I think most co-directors and co-writers just hold hands.

Todd and I have a very complementary working style .

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

For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.

There's no question about it: the best theatre is collaboration. The best anything is collaboration.

I'm always working with other collaborators.

I love collaborating with other really smart, incredible people.

Collaboration is an important part of the process, and ego is never a part of it.

I like the idea of collaboration - it pushes you. It's a richer experience.

I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.

Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other.

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 know, you can have someone who's the very best at something, but if there's not that kind of chemistry, collaborating is not going to amount to anything.

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.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

I'm not really a control person, and I'm a big believer in collaboration. I like to have a friend.

I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.

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.

It's interesting that instead of having to get tighter and more restricted for a collaboration, strangely enough, from the beginning, we've actually been more confident that we could handle this.

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.