Monica Bellucci Quotes

I always say that I'm not the director, I'm part of the team.

The directors I respect are the ones who have a collaborative attitude, who collaborate with actors.

One of the things I'm adamant about as a bandleader is not micromanaging. I'm an advocate for the concept of allowing everyone to be fully vested in what they're doing, so everyone contributes whatever they're inspired to contribute.

Film is a very collaborative medium. If you're smart enough, you learn how to maintain your vision while drawing resourcefully from all the people around you.

I want to be around people that are just as enthusiastic about the process and storytelling as I am.

I approach any collaboration I do differently.

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.

I think I used to do everything and then people had a problem with that within the band, so we're doing more of a communal thing.

I don't want egos and personalities on the set that make it more difficult to make the film. I don't want people who take the focus away from the movie and the ideas behind the movie.

I believe that if creative people are open and generous enough when working with each other, a lot more can be learned and achieved by both parties. That's what it's all about, trying to produce the best work possible on any given project.

I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.

If you have somebody who's brilliant and highly creative with a different point of view than you have, and a very different intellectual background, great things can happen.

People think if you're a movie star, you're the boss. But first of all, I'm not a movie star, I'm in a very different place. I'm not looking to do what I want - I am looking for what we can find. It's a creative process.

I'm not really a control person, and I'm a big believer in collaboration. I like to have a friend.

You don't make a movie by yourself; you certainly don't make a TV show by yourself. You invest people in their work. You make people feel comfortable in their jobs; you keep people talking.

I think most co-directors and co-writers just hold hands.

My main trick is to work with amazing people. It's a long and twisty journey, and you need people that really are amazing and have this rare gift of honesty and courage and really open up.

That's the nice thing about collaborating with someone: Your work becomes a conversation.

Part of me loves to control and to exert power, but it's not the best part of me at all. What I am slowly learning is that allowing others to have power too makes us a better organisation - many brains are simply better than one.

I think film is collaboration, and I always want to hear everyone's input.

Every actor you work with has a different method, same with the director. You have to figure out what your shared language is and how to best support each other, and also take care of yourself.

At State Bank, all decisions are collective decisions. I have created the comfort zone.

On 'Vikings,' nobody's got an ego. Michael Hirst is just so open and so collaborative.

For me, the most satisfying time to work with people, and time when it really works, is when you work with directors that are into the truth of any sort of situation.

Actors and directors work on things together. That's how I like to work, anyway. I don't want to be told what to do. I want to share it with someone and work it out together.