George C. Wolfe Quotes

Vince or Brad or Benicio would say, Maybe we should try this, and Guy was open to changes.

I believe you can work with anybody.

I'm a guy that wants the movie to work. So whatever it takes or whatever you got to do - I'm happy to do.

I know how to work with people. I've worked with the same people for 10 years. I'm not that kind of auteur. I hear ideas.

Pretty much, I am always open to input from everyone; although I don't require it, the feedback is conducive to getting the play together.

I just love to collaborate with people who take my ideas real serious, and they don't put up walls around them.

When you collaborate, you have to be willing to scrap a lot.

Every actor you work with has a different method, same with the director. You have to figure out what your shared language is and how to best support each other, and also take care of yourself.

One of the great things I learned from how cooperative theater is, you can't be too precious about your ideas.

I can work with a lot of different mentalities.

I can work with anyone.

But, you always have to listen to everyone, because I'm not always right and other people have great ideas, too. I think that makes great moviemaking.

I'll always work with my collaborator in the room so I have a reaction on a note-by-note basis. I know in my gut when something works for me, and I'll fight for it, but I'm a very easy re-writer.

I wanted to be open. On the last project, "Affection," I co-wrote everything. Sometimes, I think, it's smart to step away and be open.

I like working with writer-directors because you can solve problems right there.

As a writer, you're really in control of almost everything. That's not the case in TV. You have to be prepared to work with a lot of people to make something happen, and you got to be prepared, at least in the beginning, to not be too good at your specific task.

If men can learn to be less defensive, more open to others, and more accepting of accountability, they will adapt well to the new global economy.

I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style - the director, the actor I'm working with.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.

I think one of my strengths is that I can always take advice, and I can delegate. I know a lot of people feel the need to do everything themselves, but I am not one of them.

I come from a background where I like collaboration and improv. I think that it is important.

But I just think we've got such a continuity with what we're doing that most people come in and fill in the blanks. And sometimes we leave a lot of blanks to be filled.

Doing your job requires different modes, and you can't just be stuck in one mode where you're always the shrill outsider screaming at everybody.