John Krasinski Quotes

Working with friends isn't easy - the nature of an artistic project means it's about two strong visions colliding and a bit of mental wrestling.

Co-directing is not possible with my brother. We have very different opinions.

When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.

It is hard for 2 creative people to work together for that length of time and not fall out.

I have a partner, Danny Strong; he's an incredible writer and, really, my backbone. So when we don't see eye to eye, it's painful.

But we wanted to work in a way we never had, which was write everything together. We had to face each other in the same creative room, which gets tougher as you get older, because you don't want to be confrontational.

You've got to understand when a collaborator isn't satisfied anymore.

It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking.

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.

Three writers together would be a nightmare of obstreperous self-consciousness.

This is one of my lesser moments, and one I'm not proud to admit to, but there's always a time I feel the need to have control over the process and try to defend the song from the person I'm writing with. It never, ever helps and always causes problems.

When you're in this music thing, and you got friends involved in this, of course ya'll gonna have disagreements, and that's gon' be the outcome: we gon' fight each other.

I think when you work enough on your doing freelance stuff on other films, you start to feel what it feels like to work with people who are not totally on the same page as you.

You have to really work with someone who you think is going to be a collaborator, who you think understands what you want to do with this movie and how you want to do it.

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.

I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said, I'm having trouble. I've just sacked my second screenwriter.

There's no such thing as an actor giving positive criticism to a director. The minute you say 'Don't you think it would look nicer...', that director's going to hate your guts. Particularly if it's a good idea.

Songwriting is a give-and-take process, and it can lead to some good, healthy debates.

Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication.

It is a myth to think that sometimes creative disagreement doesn't necessarily produce a better result.

It's very difficult sometimes having bands, you know, when all the members aren't on the same page.

It's very tough when two creative people are together.

Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn't happening at all, and our chemistry as people broke down because of that.

I'm terrible at collaborating with people; nothing ever ends up coming out good.