Nick Kroll Quotes

What's so great about making television is that it's a collaborative beast. It's created by a great many hands belonging to a great many people.

I've never written anything that wasn't somewhat of a collaboration. I don't know how people do it on their own.

A film is not done by one person. It's done by a lot of people. I love this whole collaborative aspect. When it works well, you end up with something better than any of us started out to do.

This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.

And as you said, everyone contributed; certain areas of material came from certain individuals.

I think I learned a lot about collaboration and about joint creativity with other people. It is honestly so much fun and I don't think that I would have had the same album if I had just written it by myself.

I enjoy collaborating with other people.

Sometimes it’s more a matter of collaboration which matters in a collection.

I just want to work with people, so I always try to find a way to collaborate in the best way for the music.

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

I think there's something in collaboration - the fact that you can sit there and bounce ideas off of someone. It definitely matters who the person is, because certain people... The act of collaboration, where you can talk to someone, hang out, get ideas going, there is something in that. That's similar between everyone. But I think every individual collaborator is different, because they have different brains and emotions and ways of working, so it changes. Definitely.

Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.

I just enjoy collaborating. I think there is always something to be learned, and I think that one could never collaborate enough - that would be impossible. So I am always excited and honored when someone wants to work with me.

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

Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.

I personally think if you're given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way, the play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There's no doubt in my mind about it.

Movies are a collaboration, I feel, so I didn't think of myself as an authoritative figure as much.

I'm not worried. I'm just so grateful to be in the position that I'm in. I'm just going with the flow right now, and I think my album will come together quite nicely because I think everybody is on the same page.

Movies are weird; it's like trying to make a painting with one hundred people. It's a weird world, but every job is weird; it's always a little bit hard, crazy and fun, a nice combination.

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 love to collaborate! That's totally my preference. And I feel like everything I do ends up being that way.

The reality is, like any band, you can never quite quantify who does what.

Gianni created the whole thing. I came later and helped him.

I just like collaborating.

I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.