Jason Statham Quotes

When you make many films with the same actors you can develop a special understanding with them. I love working with people I know and that I trust.

I don't think it's a prize when actors and directors or writers and actors work together more than once. You have a trust and a shorthand and a lot of times you even reach the point, where in the process, you don't even have to talk.

Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.

It's always a help when you have worked with someone as you've got to know them a bit already.

When you meet people you've previously worked with, it's definitely comfortable.

Of course it's always easy when you work with people that worked together, or you work with people that you worked with before, because you develop over years some sort of shorthand of communion that is always very valuable.

People keep inviting me back. It's nice to work with the same people when you've had a good time previously, and this is one of those cases.

The most important thing is that, when you work with somebody, you build a rapport with that person. They have a certain trust in you. You don't have to explain that much. It's very hard when you photograph someone who's a fresh face and then you don't work with them again for six months. All these people I work with over and over again have qualities that I love. There's something very free about them or there are some slight imperfections about them. I think the more you work with someone, the pictures get better and better.

I'm a guy that after having experience in radio and stuff, if I can trust the people I'm working with, I get a real thrill with working with other people who are good at what they do.

If people who have to work together in an enterprise trust one another it is because they are all operating to a common set of ethical norms....such a society will be better able to innovate...since the high degree of trust will permit a wide variety of social relationships to emerge.

Any time you're making a movie, all you want to do is reduce the variables of things that could possibly go wrong. I think that's why we work with the same people over and over again.

You're working with the same people, and there's a lot of recognition. I like to do series best. I really do.

It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.

Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.

Personally, I do the best work with people I'm closest with. I know what their tastes are, and they are similar to mine. That close personal relationship is what delivers the best work.

I like to know who I'm working with, and it's important because they've got to be able to bring something to the party.

Most of the people you see me working for me are actually with me. And I'm proud to say that I've known them for 20 years almost. I've written songs with, produced songs with them a lot of times. I don't deviate form my comfort zone. I feel like when God brings people to you, it's good to keep 'em around.

That's one of the benefits of working with a smaller network like IFC. You're awarded more trust, but trust that I really earned.

I think every time you work with another collaborator, there's an adjustment process where you figure out the other person's strengths, and that has definitely happened for me.

I love when you get to work with people you know because there's so much more trust, and you're much more willing to be vulnerable in a scene with someone you trust.

No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate.

You learn a lot about a person when you work together.

There's shorthand that happens when you work with someone you know where you can almost finish each other's sentences. There's just a certain back and forth that becomes much easier with someone you've worked with for so long.

In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite.

I like collaborations, and I like working with people. I do.