Kenny Ortega Quotes

I suppose there are many, but I cannot imagine ever having a more perfect collaboration than that which Penn-san and I shared. It was based upon mutual trust, respect, and a desire to have our own work pushed to new places. And it always resulted in delight.

I'm excited about working with Mark Hughes and building a good relationship with him.

There are a lot of people I would have liked to have collaborated with, and would still like to.

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 make my relationships at work.

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

You cannot work with men who won't work with you.

No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate.

You learn a lot about a person when you work together.

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others. Having studied so long trying to master myself, the biggest challenge was learning about the other person's work.

You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back.

I'm surprised that I get to be in the same room with half the people that I'm working with.

I always hear some couples can't work together, and I don't get that. We have the most fun when we're working together.

It has to be a partnership. I go back to Ted Thompson's opening press conference, and he talked about partnership. We had a hell of a partnership for 12 years.

I don't know how people do this job collaboratively if they don't really get along. You're spending all day every day for months and years on end with somebody.

I definitely enjoy working with people who can do their thing but also allow me to do my thing, you know? Who respect the process.

I really do believe that working together works, and it's amazing to me.

Over the years, we've developed a respect for each other in the roles that we play and we rely on that difference to recreate clarity for the audience.

I feel like collaborating is something I need to try more of.

I try to speak with my team-mates a lot because I need them everyday.

You wanna work with people who you have a rapport with. You finish each other's sentences a bit creatively when you've worked together for a while.

I'm always working with other collaborators.

I love the process of collaboration... to me it just makes sense.

I realized that if I had to work with others, I had to align with their vision.

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.