Damon Albarn Quotes

I only ever asked two people to work with me as a partner. One was Paul McCartney and the other Yoko Ono. Paul and me were the Beatles.

When you have great working relationships with people, both collaborative and creatively, everybody will always want to work together.

I am very excited to work with people who have a strong vision of what they want. They're trying to tell a story, and they want to use me. I'm there to facilitate that. I really like that. I'm like, "Tell me where your frame is. Tell me what you want, what kind of story you want, and I will facilitate it." That's sort of my job, and it makes my work better when I'm working in that kind of a frame, and hopefully it's their work. It's incredibly collaborative, in the sense that you're working toward a common goal.

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.

We would do improvisation together. And that in a way, had almost a "student-film side" where we'd be sitting there with Robert Downey and Jon Favreau and we're playing around, we're jamming around and we read those pages and in next couple of days that's what we do, so it was a good experience. Kind of frightening at first because you didn't quite know how it was going to work out, but they had some very talented people there so it worked out well.

I love when people work together who know each other very well. Some of my favourite movies are people who are close friends or families.

Every director is different, but the insights from new people on set give you a different opinion and perspective, which is always embraced, in some way.

Movies are grander, with (in my experience) more heavy weight chefs in the kitchen: the studio, the producers, the writers. All of them get to weigh in and you have to listen to all of them because they hired you. With TV, it's a way smaller scale, with only a few people weighing in.

Producing is very much like running a business, where you find the project, you find the different people involved, you put the elements together, and you make sure they all work together well.

This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.

The United States has become great because we, as a people, have been able to work together for great objectives even while differing about details.

For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.

I would love to work with Guillermo del Toro and J.J. Abrams. I think they are creative geniuses that are constantly producing great work, and they're two people that I would just love to work with.

You have to collaborate with the moment and the environment. It kind of was magnified by the house being a studio.

In the creative sense, I'm looking forward to collaborating with people I have mutual respect for to create some really good work.

You just do you like when you're doing any other song. It's nothing different. Some people are like "How's it like working with Kendrick Lamar?" and really, it's like working with anyone else that I work with.

I haven't worked with people who are jealous or competitive. That's a particularly deadly attitude to have when you're working on a film.

The studio's a collaborative environment. I just try to let people bring their own ideas to the songs and see what happens.

I thought of collaborating with other people which still might happen at this point. It might not. I was just trying to break the cycle because I had gotten to a point where I was definitely sure that I was on the wrong track after about 16 years.

It takes 10 years to get all the permits to build a bridge today. Ten years? What happened to the good old can-do America? Where is "We get it done, we work together"? We've become this bureaucratic, stifling environment. I'm not talking about violating environmental things - I'm talking about building a bridge, getting things going, getting people to work together.

Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.

Without any kind of real ego on my part, I just thought, I'm going to approach the people I admire and see if they want to do something together.

I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.

Writing with other people is the only way I ever really work. In some ways it's great because it's helpful to someone pull you out of the loop.

No matter what you're doing, if you're trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really good and who make you better.