Radhika Pandit Quotes

You have to really work with someone who you think is going to be a collaborator, who you think understands what you want to do with this movie and how you want to do it.

I don't know if it'd be any time soon but I'd really like to work on a collaboration with somebody - I always have ideas for stuff like that.

This was all very new to me and I did not want to ruin his film! So we worked hard on that basis of confidence that is needed to collaborate comfortably.

I will admit, it's so intoxicating working with Steve Carrell. Creatively and professionally.

It is so killer to collaborate with someone who gets what you're trying to say.

I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.

I'm glad you asked that question, because of any musical situation I've been in, the communication feels great here with Russell. He really pays close attention to what I'm doing because he cares.

I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.

I think every time you work with another collaborator, there's an adjustment process where you figure out the other person's strengths, and that has definitely happened for me.

I collaborated on most of my dance numbers, literally 50/50, with the choreographers I worked with.

My Mom and Dad did it pretty good, so I know it can work. The foremost thing I would say about working with Robin and Sean is that they were devoted to this project and devoted to their characters. You can't ask for any more from talented actors like that.

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

What I say about actors is you always want to find an actor you can play ball with. You throw the ball at them and you want them to throw it back. Your ball playing is a lot better when you play with good ballplayers, like any sport. Every actor I know feels the same way.

I don't really have a dream collaboration.

As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that.

When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.

What Tim does is, he calls me and sends me the script. And then he sends me a drawing, an illustration of his image of me as the character. It's so great.

It's developing a relationship with actors that makes it work.

It's the director's job to piece together my performance, his interpretation of my takes, each take, and string them together and make a statement. I'm red paint on a canvas for a painter.

When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.

I wanted to collaborate with someone, but it had to be someone I could work with and who wouldn't disrespect my past.

Usually, with me, the project is always the second thing. The film-maker comes first. Films grow out of the relationship.

Honestly, one of my favorite things about a director is when they understand what an actor brings to their role.

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.