Brian Azzarello Quotes

We certainly have a lot of ideas, and we both love what Tony [Fucile] did with the book [Bink & Gollie]. If we could all pull it off, I think all three of us would like to do another.

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

I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

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.

I just like to have the ideas. Other people can help see them through.

It's interesting that instead of having to get tighter and more restricted for a collaboration, strangely enough, from the beginning, we've actually been more confident that we could handle this.

I'm not the kind of director who imposes his processes on everybody else.

Basically, the way I do it is I get to work with a bunch of people; get a bunch of great people together, and you'll be able to get something cool on the other side.

I always want to be a part of ensembles. Besides it feeling safer, I think it's a more fun environment to work in. To have a bunch of people collaborating on something, it takes the pressure off of each individual.

I find that it's nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else's feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself.

My method is much like choreography. I don't sit at a table. I work in a room with people.

It's joyful in that there's another point of view on all things, you know, not just mine. That's why I like to write and collaborate with people. There's another point of view, and when those two things come together, and people work at it really hard, they get something that is the whole is more than the sum of - is that how you say that?

I love being able to work with other artists I admire, but I have a lot to do on my own before I am willing to make it all about embracing other people.

I wish I had more control over my career, but making movies is something you do with lots of people.

Actors and directors work on things together. That's how I like to work, anyway. I don't want to be told what to do. I want to share it with someone and work it out together.

If you can make the best music ever but it requires bringing in a few different perspectives, I'd rather make the best music ever.

Being in a group, you don't really get to give an ounce of who you are as a solo artist.

Jeph Loeb has been great to work with, and he's been really supportive of some really bizarre ideas I've had.

When we work together as a group we don't contribute individually as much as I do when I'm working on my solos. I try to give as much input when I'm working on a song or album but as a group it's kind of difficult since there are five of us. Having all of us contribute to the same extent is a little more challenging than when doing our own things.

When I work with other people, I have to try to make their vision happen. With my own, I don't think about it. The music has its own kind of agency.

A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.

For me, the greatest kind of success that I've had on a particular project or in exploring a role does come through collaboration. I wouldn't want to do a movie where everything I do the director just says, "Good job" and I'm under directed.

I'm the type of actor that believes the director has to be in charge. I've been on sets where the actor's ego was the most important thing, and with a director that messes it up. But I don't like a dictator, I want it to be collaborative - the best idea wins. If I feel respected, and I'm going to give that back. If a director wants to try something, cool, I'll give it back. I also feel like they cast me for a reason, so I'm going to make my mark on it... let me do my thing.