Lucy Dacus Quotes

My career has gone in such a way that I've gotten to learn that, when you're working with a great storyteller, you don't ask questions; you just trust them.

I've got a good team, got great agents that I know are going to handle the business side, and I trust those guys.

In business it's about people. It's about relationships.

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.

My mum always told me 95 per cent of success was partnering well.

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.

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

Chris Cutler was kind enough to offer his company as an umbrella, so now I can have all my back catalogue under one roof as it were, and it has the same feeling as with Daniel; this is a matter between friends rather than businessmen.

Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.

To try and stand outside the marriage, I'd say we have complementary capabilities. I do the hustling and the business. I do more script reading. I handle contracts.

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

Working with the Kinks, there always seemed to be some kind of automatic process at work. Ray and I had this telepathy happening for a long time, where one of us always knew what the other could do with something.

One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.

Our relationships with people are formed by small moments - and relationships are crucial in business.

You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.

Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.

Regarding managing people, I am lucky to be surrounded by good, smart friends, some of whom own their own companies or have worked in ones and can lend experience.

I see my actors as my collaborators.

I think that when you have that really strong desire to work with someone it's because, instinctively, you feel you have a certain kinship.

Professional people build relationships by doing the work together.

Do deals with the people you want to work with, and the success will follow.

I definitely made friends with the people I like to write with, but I'll also write with people I haven't met before or producers I haven't met before because how are you supposed to make those friends without trying?

Business always requires personal relationships.

I think the guiding principle for me is working with people, because I don't know how long it's going to last, I want to seize the moment and work with people I want to work with.

I think one thing that is extremely important is to connect with people in order to be successful and bring the people in so that they become your partners.