Mac DeMarco Quotes

I'm not a good collaborator in general.

I find it very difficult to work with people I don't like; I can't do that.

You've got to understand when a collaborator isn't satisfied anymore.

When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.

Usually when you put five girls together, especially when they've been solo artists, it doesn't turn out very well.

When it comes to filmmaking, we have to deal with ego, anger, and a lot more; barring all these, how the team works towards the outcome matters.

I'm not a great collaborator, to tell the truth.

If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster.

Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics.

You know, it's just tough to get together and do work with somebody.

Boards and myself get along somehow.

As a writer, you're really in control of almost everything. That's not the case in TV. You have to be prepared to work with a lot of people to make something happen, and you got to be prepared, at least in the beginning, to not be too good at your specific task.

If the auto plants in Detroit would just sit around the table and say, 'What do we gotta do to make this thing work?' Instead of, 'I want this and I want that.' They might make it.

You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it's time for me to get married!

Consensus building doesn't necessarily fit with my experience.

I love collaborating with people.

I'm not good at confrontation. I know my strengths. I like company. And I am not a great arguer... I do find it much easier talking to people I like about things we both like.

You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.

When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time.

Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect.

One thing I learned particularly at Yale was how to work with others. Having studied so long trying to master myself, the biggest challenge was learning about the other person's work.

I love collaborating with different people.

It's hard to find good teamwork in practice, and I have never thought that we, as a party, were any better at working as a team than the Tories, despite our core values.

I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage.

I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It's that simple.