John Cho Quotes

What's so great about making television is that it's a collaborative beast. It's created by a great many hands belonging to a great many people.

I'm open to whatever. I think sometimes when people collaborate these days, it's a little bit convenient.

I think the mark of a good director is that they surround themselves with good people.

I love collaborating with people.

M*A*S*H' was a collection of people, in front of and behind the cameras, that really clicked.

I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver what I could deliver.

I have, in my partner George Roberts, a person who is the most wonderful man in the world to me. He's like a brother to me. Creating with him, being side by side with him, in whatever we try to do, is a real pleasure to me.

No great television show has ever rested on just one person. They're all about great ensembles and storytelling.

I love collaborating with different people.

Good production is like a beautiful marriage. It makes a happy home.

A big part of filmmaking is gathering a group of people you can work with.

I like collaborations, and I like working with people. I do.

I think it's the essence of any film and any stage production - any work where you do work with other people - of course collaboration is hugely important. One does, for awhile, become family.

When you're dealing with a bunch of different producers, you gotta make sure the chemistry fits.

When you're working with a producer, there has to be chemistry.

The best and most talented directors - and I think it goes for people too - are the most confident in giving room to their actors and trusting them.

I'm always looking for talented people that I want to collaborate with.

My favorite thing about acting is you have to learn how to work with people that you probably would never try to. Some people just aren't supposed to be in a room together, and you have to be in a room with a group of people who might not all get along and you have to figure out how to come together for one thing. That collaboration is special, and people don't get to exercise that. I think that's why people become stubborn, and I think that's why people become uninspired to change. In this job you have to.

When you work with people and are friends with them also, you have more of a shorthand. I think people relax more and it opens the door to being less precious and trying things that, when you're shooting and writing, it becomes much more collaborative - therefore funny, hopefully.

When you're working with the same band you kind of know their style inside out, and even when you've been working for seven years with the same people, suddenly they'll do something you didn't even think they were capable of.

You go in thinking you have to do this all by yourself, and what I learned was no, when you hire great people, they do so much for you.

I just want to work with people, so I always try to find a way to collaborate in the best way for the music.

When you make many films with the same actors you can develop a special understanding with them. I love working with people I know and that I trust.

I like it when people are kind and I like people who are looking for collaborators. Sometimes you can feel like a moving prop, and that could be amazing, you can be a prop in somebody's incredible vision, but I'm more interested in people who are looking for actors they can collaborate with and make something together with. I like stretching myself, I like trying new things out, but I'm really interested in working with directors who have a very specific style and a unique way of working.

I think there's something in collaboration - the fact that you can sit there and bounce ideas off of someone. It definitely matters who the person is, because certain people... The act of collaboration, where you can talk to someone, hang out, get ideas going, there is something in that. That's similar between everyone. But I think every individual collaborator is different, because they have different brains and emotions and ways of working, so it changes. Definitely.