Ray McKinnon Quotes

What I think is important for a young person is to figure out how to be useful and not be so concentrated on themselves, but to see what they can do to make the overall collaboration with all the other people involved in a movie work better.

I feel like collaborating is something I need to try more of.

If there is anything I wanted to learn in Europe, it was how I could be more of a team player.

I used to focus more on scoring. Now I take a lot of pride and pleasure in helping someone else do well.

Do you value people who won't benefit you or only those who might contribute in some way to your success? Great team players truly value others as people, and they know and relate to what others value.

I always step back and look at - you know, look at my background in playing team sports my whole life and taking that approach into Congress. It's not about me going, and you know, feeding my ego going to Congress.

The environment in a writer's room, I've really come to feel, should be some form of democracy.

You just have to know what your responsibility is to the movie, and live up to that, and be considerate of the other actors in the scene... I have never been competitive in that way - I always want my leading ladies to be as good as they possibly can be.

I work with a group of actors, and whenever one of us has an audition, we all get together, and we all work together on it. I think it takes us back to our film school days, our drama school days, us just working together and figuring it out because somebody else is going to see something in the material that you won't see.

I love discussing the ins and outs of the collaborative nature of writing.

Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

I believe in collaboration. I think that is the most entertaining and effective way to write for me, personally.

But things can happen in a band, or any type of collaboration, that would not otherwise happen.

Everybody does their homework, and we all come together and just knock it out. There are adjustments to make, and if you have actors who are collaborators and who really know how to listen and be in the scene together, than it works out beautifully.

A player has to think a lot bigger than himself personally, regardless of his situation.

One of the great things I learned from how cooperative theater is, you can't be too precious about your ideas.

Another writer might question whether you're feeling competitive. But if I talk to Jonah, I know that he truly values my success more than his own. And I truly value his success more than my own. There's a generosity there.

You can put yourself to the purpose of others, and in doing so, you can be better off.

A part of the bigger picture is much more interesting to me than just bringing attention or focus on myself or my character.

I'm all about assists; I'm not really greedy.

I've always dreamed about playing for a team that's unselfish.

If you want to be a part of a team I manage, it is important to put your ego to one side.

I was never selfish, and I see a lot of things. If I see a person in a better position than me, I will give him my assist. This is also my way of thinking, and I expect that from my team-mate for me.

I feel more satisfaction - and attach greater value - to providing assists then scoring myself.

It's a team game. I feel happier when I pass the ball than when I score.