Aja Naomi King Quotes

Anytime Tom Watson is on your team, you've won. His passion, professionalism, attention to detail, and leadership are unparalleled.

When I think about 'Beast Mode,' that's what I think about. I don't think about just a hard project; they just created some art together.

We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever.

I really have the good fortune that the actors who work with me on 'The Leftovers' are thoughtful, hard working, open people and generous people.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.

Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day execution work of keeping it going. But people need to stay connected to the boldness, to the vision, and stay plugged in to the main vein of the dream.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

I'm a guy that wants the movie to work. So whatever it takes or whatever you got to do - I'm happy to do.

Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate.

Creative collaboration is awesome.

Organizations that can diminish fear are those that are able to motivate, create, and innovate.

Creativity is down the tube. And people give a lot of lip service to individuality. I know they all appreciate it, but they all say they would like to do it, but they don't want to work at it, and it doesn't come out of the sky.

If the work requires smart, talented, creative people, then more than anything, you want to enable folks on the team to create.

I just love to collaborate with people who take my ideas real serious, and they don't put up walls around them.

You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.

When you collaborate, you have to be willing to scrap a lot.

I feel that when people hire me they know it's going to be a collaboration and that they hire me for what I give on all sorts of levels, from my movement to the emotion I bring to the project, the passion, all of it.

Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die. But, it really is about that shared experience with people. I'm from theater, and that's really what theater feels like.

With each job that you're given an opportunity to do, you're asked to use new parts of yourself and to figure the play out with other tools that you perhaps didn't use with the last show.

Life is very complicated. I look to collaborate with artistic people and to go into an endeavor without judgment and to hopefully be treated with the same.

My favorite thing about working with Lady Gaga is really just the sheer level of creativity she brings to the table. And she's really one of the most intelligent people I've ever known. Her intelligence is equaled by her heart.

I still care about human behavior and the art that it takes to write a good piece and to get a cast together who cares enough to put 150 percent of their talent into a project.