Travis Beacham Quotes

I think film is collaboration, and I always want to hear everyone's input.

Film is a collaborative art form. If you're not being collaborative, you probably shouldn't be working in film. You don't do it on your own. People who understand that, cultivate that, get the best results.

It's good to work with a writer-director.

Film is a team thing. There is no auteur.

And 'Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll' was a very transitional film for me in that I was one of the producers and you know, came up with the idea with the writer and the producer, as well. But, it was a very collaborative event. You know, I really love working in that way.

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.

Mistakes happen because so many minds work on one film.

Making a film - particularly what I think is a good film - is the result of a team of people, and the end result has many, many hands on it.

Any film is a collaborative process, you've got thousands and thousands of people working on it.

Anybody who knows how to make a good movie, knows that it's a collaborative undertaking. To deny that its really dangerous.

I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.

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

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.

What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing.

The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.

Movies are a team sport now, and I want to play singles.

You never know when you read a script how it's going to turn out because so much depends on the collaboration between people. If I'd been in some of the movies I turned down, maybe they wouldn't have been a success.

I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.

I love writing books, but it's a solitary experience. When I'm on a film set, I'm with a bunch of other artists working together to make one thing.

I truly believe that cinema is a collaborative effort, and as long as I get to tell, and be part of, interesting stories and work with genuine people, I don't see any project as a 'risk.'

I'm a big believer in building a crew. Movies are the most collaborative art form at the tend of the world, and it takes hundreds of people to make one. At the end of the day, I get the lion's share of praise or blame but everybody on the ground knows that it was all of us.

The whole thing of working in collaboration with filmmakers is the thing that I love the most, and possibly the thing I do the best.

Filmmaking is such a collaboration. At a certain point, I suppose you do have to let go and trust the people you're working with.

You're collaborating with people you don't even know, when you're making a film. You're collaborating with people you've never seen. So, the collaborative process is very, very different than when you're collaborating on a record with the musicians you've worked with all your life.