Zaytoven Quotes

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

I feel like there is a different, new energy when I collaborate with a living artist, whether it be a composer, designer, lighting designer. I love that process.

When I go in the studio with Post, I have a really good idea of what he's going to gravitate to, what we can work with.

Screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.

Some of the best art in the world is collaborative, a mix of voices that are stronger together than separate. Take the Beatles, for example. Or every great movie ever made. We like to say they're the director's vision, but really, they're huge collaborations between directors, writers, actors, even producers.

It's a product of two poles - there's the pole of the one who makes the work, and the pole of the one who looks at it. I give the latter as much importance as the one who makes it.

I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.

When I work with artists, I give them a general guideline of what my vision is. Then they're going to speak their minds on how they view it, too. The song that defines 'Neon Future' the best is the title track. I wrote that with Luke Steele of Empire of the Sun. It's through his words. We had an amazing songwriting session together, connecting.

Created stuff is meant to be shared. That’s why the creative person created it. Why else do creative people exist?

That's what I've always wanted to do - work with my favorite writers and make something from scratch with them that we can feel like didn't exist before we came in the room.

When I'm in a session with an artist, my job is to help execute their vision - so it's whatever story they're telling, and the news doesn't specifically affect that.

Being in a studio is quite a creative and energetic process.

For the last 10 years, I've been working with Donald Glover and Ryan Coogler, and we've put down so much time really trying to make the best that we can, whether it's a movie, a film score, or a song.

My favorite thing as a performing artist is to get a pile of raw material from a writer who says, 'Will you help me make this real?' There's nothing like starting from scratch.

Joel Little and I have this certain chemistry we have when we work together.

For every artist, experience is never complete until it has been reproduced in creative work.

I'd love to get in a room with Kanye at some point, have a conversation, and see if something cooks up.

When I just write something, it's usually because I love it, I love the material, but I feel like I really need a creative partner to crack it. And I certainly need and have a lot of creative partners as a director.

I always feel when you work with an artist and whenever I work with a really good photographer, I try to give him or her their own artistic freedom because that's the way you get the best work or at least the most interesting work.

I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

From an artist's point of view, I always want to work with the writers I admire.

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

When I'm a part of someone else's creative process, it's all about facilitating their ideas and hopefully bringing their perspective and making it a part of a song.