Brian Azzarello Quotes

I usually have one project I'm focusing on but often have many other projects in the back of my mind for several years.

When I started doing projects for TV, I made sure to participate in the brainstorming sessions.

Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because you have to find the right idea.

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

I do a lot of brainstorming with my editors.

Being able to chuck ideas around and bounce ideas off each other with anyone I'm working with is just something I love to do, that's how most of these ideas are formed.

A lot of my creative ideas begin in the pub, talking through possibilities with collaborators.

A film is not something that can be made over the phone or Skype. Creative people meet, spend time together, and then come up with something.

I think the community that's created within a writers' room is a very interesting topic.

I really challenge every actor at the beginning of a process, and I always say, 'I have an idea that I'm going to bring to the table. I hope and expect that you will have an idea and bring it to the table. But the way I really want to work is that together we're going to have a third idea that is better than either of our ideas.'

I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it to the table with whoever I'm collaborating with.

In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet.

Working at Pixar you learn the really honest, hard way of making a great movie, which is to surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you, much more talented than you, and incite constructive criticism; you'll get a much better movie out of it.

No one ever contributed anything to my designs.

There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.

I like to collaborate on my music. The creative process is fun, and you get a lot of ideas from having discussions about it. Ultimately, the final decision is mine.

I keep a creative group around me.

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative.

For me, I love exploring ideas and throwing stuff against the wall and seeing what fits, and if I had a really nice collaborative team around me who could deal with the more day-to-day minutia, that would be fun. And directing sometime in the future and writing... yeah, I can see that all in my future. But I can be incredibly lazy.

The way I feel about rehearsals is that the best idea wins.

Every scene is on the table to collaborate on, to pick apart, to try a million different ways. Usually, what ends up occurring in the end is something that no single person knew would happen or had planned for.

I usually think about titles. I'll hear somebody say something and write it down in my notes, and whenever we go into a room, somebody will start naming off titles, and whoever has the best title, that's what we start writing.

Composing easy? I find it easy if - big if - the idea is right, if I have the right collaborator, and if my collaborator is in the room. I like my collaborator to be in the room.

I work very closely with my co-writer, Efthimis Filippou. Ideas either start from him or me, and then the other one develops it, and it's a constant conversation.

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