Gary Lucas Quotes

Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

It's always good when you can bring two artists together who are totally different.

Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make me, either. I think it was a combination. I think that's what made it work.

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.

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.

Anytime Pump and I make a track together, it's always crazy.

I'd like to produce something with Kanye. Like, my production plus his, I think he'd make something really cool.

There's an attitude that I have where I bring the art to the table and the writer brings the writing to the table, but neither of us brings the story to the table. The story is something that only happens with the combination of both of us.

Me and Kanye work awesome together. He's a creative man, I'm a creative man, we put our ideas together, it's like the perfect formula.

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative.

I see my actors as my collaborators.

No one person is the author of a Bourne film. The truth is it's a coalition of people who share the same vision for Bourne and his world, and we... its remarkably collaborative and collective.

To work with the same director is a great feeling.

It's a very rare and fortunate position to be able to make movies with two of your best friends who happen to be really amazing actors and writers.

If you understand each other's way of thinking, you understand what kind of film someone is trying to make, and all the ideas that I come up with will fit into that film.

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.

Having a connection and chemistry with a director is really key.

Sometimes when an actor and director work together for the first time, it's not as if there's a suspicion, but there is tentativeness, a certain amount of a right of passage you have to go through in order to get there. When it's already there from the beginning, it's such a plus.

There's something about that blind trust between Timbaland and me - two people that have almost nothing in common except for a love of music - that is really rejuvenating.

This idea of collaborating with designers - that's something I can identify with.

I feel like Turbo helped me grow. It's the way we just lock in. His mind is set to where he'll start making beats to my flow and my sound. He's not an engineer, but he knows how to record.

There's a synergy with Dre and me.

You do movies because you love movies and you write music because you love writing music, and sometimes there's this magic combination.

In an ideal world, as a director, you usually wish you could do your own thing and not have to take anyone else's point of view into account, but occasionally you work with someone like Robyn, who brings a new set of ideas to the table, and the whole ends up much greater than the sum of the parts.

As a writer who has collaborated on projects, you give your life over to that project.