Willy Caballero Quotes

I used to teach improv courses in Amsterdam where we would do team-building exercises, and they can go south very quickly.

It's difficult working with someone who is not a team player.

Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.

The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.

On great teams - the kind where people trust each other, engage in open conflict, and then commit to decisions - team members have the courage and confidence to confront one another when they see something that isn't serving the team.

Sometimes you're going to have someone on your team who's just not comfortable with being open. You have to ask yourself, 'Is this person going to allow us to be a real team?' Maybe they're not right for your team. You have to be willing to lose someone sometimes.

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster.

Coaches have told me I can help the team much more if I don't talk, if I don't moan.

Communication is an issue where we can improve, and if I can do anything to help, I am happy to.

If someone can't behave with their colleagues and can't be part of the culture, it doesn't matter how good they are at what they do; they have to be asked to leave.

Teams are often pretty clear about what they can do or are willing to do.

Kev has these old Boston drills, where you all have to talk to each other, and interact, and it's helped us.

What's great about 'The Avengers' is that it's the next step. It's not just superhero fights super-villain and superhero wins. It's about superheroes that come together and interact. It's a clash of the egos. You could do 'Avengers 1' without a villain, just with all these guys coming together. They could sit down and just have a discussion.

Consensus building doesn't necessarily fit with my experience.

I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.

I love it when other people can come up with ideas and tell me what to do.

You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.

What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions.

It's getting better and better. You know, guys are feeling more comfortable and they are not afraid to speak up and be a leader. I mean, our team, we have 25 players, we have about 25 leaders, too. So whatever someone says, people listen.

I love working with other people and bouncing ideas off them.

When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time.

On a film crew, you can see very quickly that some people who are working with you are stronger than you. Then you have to have the humility to listen to them. And because very often they have better ideas than yours, it can be tough on the evil ego. But it makes a better film.

I'm terrible at collaborating with people; nothing ever ends up coming out good.

If you think that something worked and your directing partner doesn't think so, then maybe you have to re-think what you were doing.