Zac Posen Quotes

But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.

Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.

At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.

I'm lucky to be surrounded by incredibly talented people at Pixar, of course, and I learn a lot from them each and every day.

I think it's healthy that people that work in a creative field look for inspiration in a different creative field.

I feel like there is a different, new energy when I collaborate with a living artist, whether it be a composer, designer, lighting designer. I love that process.

I want to interact creatively with the directors I work with - it's a thrilling way to work.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a very diverse group and the result is always more interesting than something I could have done by myself.

When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.

There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do.

I'm not one of those playwrights who says, 'Show up, hit your marks, and don't talk to me!' I always want to hear from the other artists involved, whether it's the director, the lighting tech, or the actors.

It's fun and super exciting to see how other people work, how other people write music, and how other people put things together. To me, it's an endless learning process, and I love doing it because everybody works so completely differently.

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.

When you work in a creative environment, people get protective about their ideas. Sometimes it's justified; sometimes it's about ego.

If you understand each other's way of thinking, you understand what kind of film someone is trying to make, and all the ideas that I come up with will fit into that film.

When you have a situation where you're hanging out with 20 or 30 other artists, then there's insane amounts of creativity in the room.

In an ideal world, as a director, you usually wish you could do your own thing and not have to take anyone else's point of view into account, but occasionally you work with someone like Robyn, who brings a new set of ideas to the table, and the whole ends up much greater than the sum of the parts.

When I'm in the studio with a writer, I don't mind for them to take the lead and show me something new.

I'm a big believer in bringing in other creative minds; I do it in my commercial work.

There's an attitude that I have where I bring the art to the table and the writer brings the writing to the table, but neither of us brings the story to the table. The story is something that only happens with the combination of both of us.

I do love being amongst creative people and facilitating that and being inspired by people. I get very bored with just competence and require inspiration all around me.

I really love being a part of the creative process. I love having an opinion that gets heard, and then it's all up for discussion.

What I love about making movies is that it's a collaboration. It's one of the most rewarding things, to create something and have someone show you something that you didn't see, and vice versa.

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