Dervla Kirwan Quotes

If you were to ask me, 'What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?' I would say a huge amount. It's show time every day, it's a team of people, like, running a circus, which is running a rock-and-roll band.

At Pixar, 'Wall-E' was our ninth film, and they've all been successes - more than that, they've all really touched people. Everybody wonders, 'How do you do it?' Well, how do you not do it? You just work hard.

It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.

The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.

What I've learned in my career as an actor is that you're only as good as your collaborators. The process is many things, but it is wholly collaborative, particularly with something like 'Westworld,' which is a 10-episode-per-season gig, and we're just now on the 7th episode.

I didn't know what it was going to look like or how anything was going to turn out, but the production on 'Teen Wolf' is so amazing. The way that they shoot it, edit it, and put it out there, it's really so exciting. I trust the team so much. They do such a good job.

It's a real testament to the amount of skill and talent involved, across the board, whether it's the production design, the construction, the costume design, the other actors, the way it's shot, the directors we had on it, or obviously John's writing. When things do go well, it sometimes seems easy, in a weird way, but it's actually down to a lot of cogs working in a big machine. But, I'm certainly happy to be going back. I'm excited to carry on.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

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

But I don't just see the movie when I see the movie, I see all the great people who worked on it and all their hard work, because they could not have worked any harder.

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

I've always considered myself a workaholic... The way I work, I have to turn myself upside down and hang myself by my ankles and wring myself out like a wet sweater, and I have to do that with other people, too, because I think that's where something good comes out.

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

It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.

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.

The important thing is to be part of a good project with good, talented people.

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.

Making a television show is a difficult, collaborative, creative endeavor, and it really requires everybody to band together and all work together every day.

It's really cool when the thing you are working on as a small team gets embraced by millions, but in the end, it's about your character and the script and your director and the rest of the cast and crew.

Thank you to everyone who works with us on our shows for making us look like we know what we're doing.

The thing I like to stress about TV is that it's a team exercise. You really can't have too much of an ego.

Filmmaking is teamwork.

It takes a damn village to get a show on Broadway!

I am no genius; I just worked hard like my other teammates, and I believe all my teammates can win the title as they work hard, too.