Lee Tae-min Quotes

I've learned that you can call it a band, but unless everyone is contributing, it's not, really. It's pretending that it's a band.

Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.

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

We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.

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.

This is a group effort. This is group theatre. This is no big star turn. You could do things with it to do that but it would just be out of kilter. This is one reason I like this play. This is a unit.

You know, it's just tough to get together and do work with somebody.

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

If a whole team doesn't perform, you cannot pick one player especially and say, 'He doesn't do this or do that.'

We tend to see films as artifacts of one mind. The reality of it is, I think, when you come out here and start working, you have to learn pretty quickly that it's a very collaborative process.

It's one thing to be a perfectionist when you're alone, but when you're trying to make it work in an ensemble that's a whole different deal.

I think I used to do everything and then people had a problem with that within the band, so we're doing more of a communal thing.

I think getting the rest of the guys in the band to write is important.

I think directing in a team is a really good idea because it stops the cult of the director as God straight away, and also you're discussing things on set so it opens it out to everyone and it becomes a totally collaborative thing. And you have someone who supports you when you're feeling a bit insecure.

And as you said, everyone contributed; certain areas of material came from certain individuals.

Maybe it's just my improv and sketch background, but I'm a lot more comfortable in a group. I like sharing focus and populating an ensemble.

We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.

Collaboration is something I missed at one point in The Shins. I really wanted to have that experience again, you know, not having everything rely on me. I wanted to have a partner.

It's not easy working with your husband, I'll be straight up about that. But when we work together, we always get great product. It's not easy in the process and as we go along it gets easier, but yeah, it gets a little sticky.

The work of a team should always embrace a great player but the great player must always work.

It's hard to make something collaboratively. That's the challenge. Sometimes you're successful.

No one ever contributed anything to my designs.

There are lots of ways to work together.

It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group.