Janet Varney Quotes

I always work with 18 friends.

I love working with ensemble groups of actors.

Most of my enjoyable times in the theater have been working in a group.

I am always happiest in an ensemble.

What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions.

I like big casts. The experience of working together, that human contact - those are my roots, professionally.

I never liked group work in school.

I'm really puzzled by why people in societies find it difficult to work collaboratively together with other people in societies.

Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective.

I just like to work with other people, and I like things that are kind of a little bit bigger than that. I don't know. I just feel like a solo record just kind of gives me the willies a little bit.

I came from drama school, and it's a group of 18 people working together in every single production and splitting up the roles for three years, so I am very much about the team.

I think if you can get the right bunch of people together, and you're in the room and it just feels right, then the music will come.

We don't ever write stuff individually and say, 'OK, this is gonna be the song.' We bring in ideas in their rawest form and bounce them around to find the thing that is bigger than any individual's idea.

When I was working on The Wire with the other actors, scene after scene after scene, I felt like we were singing together. We were dancing together. I'm like, "This is the best ensemble I've ever worked with. I'm working with these cats? Holy mackerel, this is heaven."

I get inspired by creativity, when people are together. You know what I mean, there's a certain synergy when people work together.

I couldn't be a one-woman show, since I wouldn't have anybody to bounce off from. Once you're out there, dribbling on, you have nobody to interrupt you. I love being part of a company, and telling a story.

People are more productive when they're alone, but they're more collaborative and innovative when they're together.

It's such a contentious thing to get people in a room and just say, "go!"

I think when people are jumping on top of each other's ideas, it elevates it a lot more than me going into the studio and working on something all by myself for a while.

Writing a screen play with a group of collaborators is like the Lennon McCartney collaboration .... sometimes one or two people do more than others on certain parts of the process and vice versa.

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.

It's very exciting to be a part of a team of collaborators in general.

When people come together, they become much more productive.

I enjoy collaborating with other people.

There's nothing wrong with an actor that can't improvise, but if you're going to improvise, you gotta make sure you got people that can play the game.