Rostam Batmanglij Quotes

When you work with a DeNiro or Hoffman, they love what they do so much that there's never any competitive vibe. It's more about how do we do this thing together.

One is, that they will feel about you that you're going to make something wonderful for them. And they help you by expressing themselves. Not telling you how to do it, but encouraging you and accepting your vision and working with you on that kind of a level.

I actually like the collaboration of working with different artists.

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.

I don't see the arts as competitive at all. It was a better angel of my nature. Sports is zero-sum: winner, loser, demonstrable.

Life is very complicated. I look to collaborate with artistic people and to go into an endeavor without judgment and to hopefully be treated with the same.

It don't matter who I'm working with. I just feel like I want to make the best record possible.

If you understand each other's way of thinking, you understand what kind of film someone is trying to make, and all the ideas that I come up with will fit into that film.

When you work with good actors, you feed off each others' energies.

Good actors have always supported each other's performances in a film, and the same happened in 'Bareilly Ki Barfi.' We all supported each other throughout.

I only collaborate with the people I rock with in life, period. I rock with people where I really respect their craft and respect what they're doing. That's what collaboration should start from.

For those of us who make music together, I think it's important to realize that generosity on both sides is actually going to produce the biggest possibility.

In the creative sense, I'm looking forward to collaborating with people I have mutual respect for to create some really good work.

I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.

There are so many great things about this business. Almost everybody is on the same team. It is all for one-friendly competitiveness. No one is out to hurt anyone.

I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

Some couples could not work together but we enjoy working on our projects and building our art business.

It is not only one person's work, it's really a partnership and collaboration during all these years.

What I enjoy is a collaboration. Working with other like-minded people. People who have brilliant minds and big hearts.

I'm never happier than when I'm part of an ensemble. The rhythm of working in a group and the dynamic of each individual relationship within that group coming together is such a special thing.

In the network model, rewards come by empowering others, not by climbing over them. If you work in a hierarchy, you may not want to climb to its top.

People think if you're a movie star, you're the boss. But first of all, I'm not a movie star, I'm in a very different place. I'm not looking to do what I want - I am looking for what we can find. It's a creative process.

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

What I love about collaborating is that you're working with other minds that work differently to yours.