Jay Roach Quotes

I believe in collaboration. I think that is the most entertaining and effective way to write for me, personally.

Mistakes happen because so many minds work on one film.

Creative collaboration is awesome.

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

Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans.

Before I ever put anything on paper, Jerry and I would talk back and forth.

The curse of speech writing is being part of a team.

To get the film in your head on the screen, first you have to take it out of your head and explain it to everyone who is working with you. This will take work and planning.

When I started to do it with precision, I realized how much setting good screens made us better as a team offensively. It made things easy for me and my teammates.

Animation is very much a team effort so you must be a team player.

I love the process of collaboration... to me it just makes sense.

On the 'X-Men' films, people are always throwing out ideas and trying to get the shot to look the best and make the most sense, and to get it done efficiently. Everybody collaborates and everybody is very open to new ideas.

And, all these things need to be coordinated; so we all need to work together, have timers going and everything so we're all coordinated and get this piece of orchestration done.

Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.

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

To get things done, you have to get people together.

There is no difficult moment working together because when we start a new project, Dante starts to make all the sketches and I can see the vision of the movie and then I start my job.

Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration.

I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think.

The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

Music teaches people to work together, which is maybe one of the most important skills.