James Patterson Quotes

Creative projects are rarely the result of a single person's efforts.

Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration.

I'm very humble in terms of knowing that television is an extraordinary collaborative medium and that one person alone cannot make a great TV show.

Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really.

Teamwork was more accepted 40 years ago.

Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.

… leadership is not a one man show.

My 'Collaboration Wish List' is a mile long.

I'm not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

Writing a screen play with a group of collaborators is like the Lennon McCartney collaboration .... sometimes one or two people do more than others on certain parts of the process and vice versa.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

I love creating partnerships; I love not having to bear the entire burden of the creative storytelling, and when I have unions like with George Lucas and Peter Jackson, it's really great; not only do I benefit, but the project is better for it.

Collaboration is the way to go. It's very timely and fun to do.

The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.

It's not any one person. It's not any one coach. It's the team.

We worked as a team... I was one of the band.

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.

I love to collaborate! That's totally my preference. And I feel like everything I do ends up being that way.

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.

This is a group effort. This is group theatre. This is no big star turn. You could do things with it to do that but it would just be out of kilter. This is one reason I like this play. This is a unit.

I have a lot to do with the writing, and also the production, but it would be wrong of me to say that I'm the most important member of the band, because everybody is important the way I see it.

It's hard to make something collaboratively. That's the challenge. Sometimes you're successful.

I cannot exist as a solo artist.