Armand Assante Quotes

I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.

No matter whom I've worked with, they've always created a great bond with me.

I only collaborate with the people I rock with in life, period. I rock with people where I really respect their craft and respect what they're doing. That's what collaboration should start from.

Personally, I do the best work with people I'm closest with. I know what their tastes are, and they are similar to mine. That close personal relationship is what delivers the best work.

If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.

In many ways, a song-writing partnership is like a marriage. Apart from just liking each other, a lyricist and a composer should be able to spend long periods of time together - around the clock if need be - without getting on each other's nerves. Their goals, outlooks, and basic philosophies should be similar.

The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.

I see my actors as my collaborators.

I have two or three guys that I'm really close to. We have a great friendship, and I think that helps our songwriting relationship. It's hard to start... with new people and cover the ground that I've covered with those guys.

Me and Mike Myers had great chemistry between us.

There was something really special about working with Lena Dunham. I immediately felt very comfortable with her, and we spoke the same language.

I believe chemistry is based on the trust between two performers. What actually works is something intangible - being extremely comfortable in each other's presence.

Certainly as a director you want to be working with people who are on the same page as you and that you can trust and get along with.

I love working with the same people. When I find someone I love and that I like working with, I don't want to stop working with them.

When you work together in a creative way, you have to be less selfish about your ideas and learn to let both parties feel valued. Of course, that's also a really great quality to have in a relationship, too.

In the end all collaborations are love stories.

When you work with a DeNiro or Hoffman, they love what they do so much that there's never any competitive vibe. It's more about how do we do this thing together.

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.

It's a rare thing to find somebody you can work with, work off of, and have fun with.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Businesses that run well are almost like marriages. Everything has to be up for discussion, or there will be real problems.

The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.

Of all the myriad ways we define love, there is perhaps none more honest and powerful than this: Great love is rooted in great partnership.

It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.

This was all very new to me and I did not want to ruin his film! So we worked hard on that basis of confidence that is needed to collaborate comfortably.