Noah Baumbach Quotes

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 really challenge every actor at the beginning of a process, and I always say, 'I have an idea that I'm going to bring to the table. I hope and expect that you will have an idea and bring it to the table. But the way I really want to work is that together we're going to have a third idea that is better than either of our ideas.'

I think you can write very good comedy without a partner, but what I love about it, working with a partner, is that you get to places you'd never get on your own. It's like when God was designing the world and decided we couldn't have children without a partner; it was a way of mixing up the genes so you'd get a more interesting product.

I'm down to work with anyone as long as it's an organic collaboration.

It's really lonely trying to build something by yourself. It's good to have thought partners to bounce ideas off of.

I approach any collaboration I do differently.

Collaboration is about listening to someone else and adding your own feelings about that thought.

That's what's so wonderful about collaborating: your idea can explode and become something else.

Movies are a collaboration, I feel, so I didn't think of myself as an authoritative figure as much.

Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration.

I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.

It is not only one person's work, it's really a partnership and collaboration during all these years.

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

I enjoy being given a certain amount of freedom in order to interpret or to come up with stuff, but I do enjoy collaboration. I seek and thrive on projects where I am going to learn from the people I'm working with.

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

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

One of the things that I think makes me successful is the way in which I collaborate with others. In my opinion, nothing great is ever the product of one mind. It's always a consequence of some sort of self-critical collaboration.

I always have to re-learn the important lesson that the work is always stronger when I listen and take input from others.

Collaborate, don't dictate.

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.

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

I love collaborating with different voices.

What I love is the openness of collaboration.

There's a synergy with Dre and me.

I've always been a very collaborative person, and I think 'Cop Car' and all the people I worked with who made it possible is a good example of that.