Alison Pill Quotes

I believe in singing to such an extent that, if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing becomes a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for cooperation with others.

With acting, it's like you form chemistry with different people in different ways, so it's really added even more fun to work, you know?

I'm a culture guy. I sort of know all the familiar ingredients to get something going. Once everyone starts to buy in collectively, then that culture can start being built.

People talk about offensive chemistry all the time, but defensive chemistry is something you have to build, too, and there's a lot of that work to be done with just communications and the feel of who certain guys play.

I love working with ensemble groups of actors.

You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with and a sense of humour and a complete relaxation, even when you're discussing serious things, does help to mobilise friends around you. And I love that.

I realized I needed to work with other people instead of doing everything myself.

I've never been able to reuse characters, I've often wanted to. I've never been able to get people to cooperate. I can't get anyone together on any kind of deal.

You can't just put any four people together and it goes 'yaaaaah', y'know?

Jason always tried to build a good relationship with his team. He'd learned the hard way that if somebody was going to have your back in a fight, it was better if you found some common ground and trusted each other. But Nico wasn't easy to figure out.

My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.

The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.

I love putting things together. I love putting together a team and making stuff with people. It's great, that's what's cool about movies it's such a collaborative effort.

One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.

I've been lucky with the circle of people I'm playing with. We've played enough that there's a language we talk with each other when we play.

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

Having a great idea is important. But having a great team is also important.

You can get really far by putting your ideas out there and letting other people build on them.

The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.

There are probably still people that are competitive with each other, but I don't feel that's necessary. I like when we lift each other up.

Anytime you get a group of people, they're going to have different ideas and they're going to want to approach situations in different ways.

A lot of the projects that I do, I like to be involved with earlier. I just feel that, certainly from an acting point of view, it's easier to do my job, if I'm included in what the intentions are, for why people are doing what they're doing, especially with a director.

If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured.

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

That's kind of how I've based my career. I find talented people and beg me to let me work with them.