Peter Zumthor Quotes

Williams really does feel like a family, and I have built up very good relationships with people here; in fact, some of my best friends work for Williams. A friendly atmosphere can really help on the track as well because I feel like I can communicate freely with the team.

I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it.

It's good to have a manager who shares your interests, or goals. You can presumably trust a husband. I don't know if it's the best way to work. I really shouldn't discuss this.

You're not best friends with someone just because you work with them, but you have to be able to at least work together, or there is no point.

If my boss and my company loves working with me, we're gonna have a lot of success together.

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

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.

For me to work with someone, I have to know who I'm working with so I can learn how to deal with each other and try to help each other. At the end of the day, it really just comes down to building a genuine relationship. I think that's a very important factor in business.

A good working relationship between an actor and the director is very important. It takes a while to build a comfort zone because filmmaking is a long process so it is important to connect with people you work with.

[In relationships with a directors] I want to be able to give and take, and I can't name what it is: respect, energy, investment in the task, focus, humor, intelligence, but I always feel responsible for taking the money.

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

The relationship between a client must be 'we.'

If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

I've always just tried to treat people with respect, build relationships with players and coaches... build a trust.

It's always a help when you have worked with someone as you've got to know them a bit already.

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.

The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.

If you understand the importance of developing a relationship with the director and making that director see that you're the best technical adviser and resource in the world on your subject, you'll be invited on set as a respected and integral part of the process.

I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.

A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.

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.

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

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

Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.

I think a good relationship is about collaboration.