William Merritt Chase Quotes

Joel Little and I have this certain chemistry we have when we work together.

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

I see my actors as my collaborators.

Musicals are very collaborative. Unless you find somebody who wants to do something with you and has equal commitment, it's not going to work.

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

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 love creating partnerships; I love not having to bear the entire burden of the creative storytelling, and when I have unions like with George Lucas and Peter Jackson, it's really great; not only do I benefit, but the project is better for it.

Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in.

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

Collaboration is something I missed at one point in The Shins. I really wanted to have that experience again, you know, not having everything rely on me. I wanted to have a partner.

I've done art on my own, and I've also collaborated with other people to make art. And collaborating with other people is always interesting because you end up doing things you probably wouldn't do otherwise.

Sometimes Lennon needed McCartney and sometimes Simon needed Garfunkel. You'd go mad doing everything on your own.

What goes on between the actor and director is sacred.

But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.

If you think that something worked and your directing partner doesn't think so, then maybe you have to re-think what you were doing.

It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think.

Neither Rainer Werner, nor any of us could have succeeded, or produced the number of films that we did, just on our own. We showed our films to each other, discussed them vigorously and rarely agreed.

My career has gone in such a way that I've gotten to learn that, when you're working with a great storyteller, you don't ask questions; you just trust them.

All directors have their strengths and weaknesses, as all actors have, and all artists. What you try to do is complete the relationship and take care of the stuff that the director won't take care of.

To work with the same director is a great feeling.

Film is a collaborative art form. If you're not being collaborative, you probably shouldn't be working in film. You don't do it on your own. People who understand that, cultivate that, get the best results.

When you think back in history about producers and artists or writers who've had good synergy, a lot of times they date, or they're married, or there's a friendship and a kinship.

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.

Writing a comic book series, you're so reliant on whoever the artist is. It truly is collaboration.

There's a synergy with Dre and me.