Edward Burns Quotes

There's no question about it: the best theatre is collaboration. The best anything is collaboration.

Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.

You know, you can have someone who's the very best at something, but if there's not that kind of chemistry, collaborating is not going to amount to anything.

I love working with talented young performers.

I'm definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely love input from my directors and my writers. I know that there's some actors who like to be left alone, they like to be very independent, but I actually really enjoy the teamwork.

That's the most important thing to me - that if I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together.

No matter what you're doing, whether you have a business with someone, a band with someone, when you feel confident that your idea is going to be embraced, and even if it isn't, that everyone is going to work on it as hard as they can, then that's a great thing.

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.

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

Movies are a collaboration, I feel, so I didn't think of myself as an authoritative figure as much.

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.

It's a rare thing to find somebody you can work with, work off of, and have fun with.

I've always wanted to be a singer and an actor. I will continue to concentrate on both because I love both.

If one of my heroes comes to me and says, 'Do you want to work on something?' I just say, 'Yes.' I don't ask for details; I don't expect to get paid anything. I just love working with my heroes.

I love collaborating with people.

In many ways, a song-writing partnership is like a marriage. Apart from just liking each other, a lyricist and a composer should be able to spend long periods of time together - around the clock if need be - without getting on each other's nerves. Their goals, outlooks, and basic philosophies should be similar.

I love working with Sally Field, and Steve Buscemi is one of the most giving, talented actors I've ever worked with.

In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.

Everything about the movie 'Dope' is real artistry, and everybody put their full hearts and souls into it. It's a passion project; it's not one of those things everybody got paid a million dollars to do. Everybody on there wanted to do it. Everybody there believed in the project, and we just went for it. We all love each other.

Working with the cast of 'Glee' was inspiring. To be around a group of kids who work so hard and love what they do is so refreshing.

I love collaborating.

You have to work with people you really love.

I've discovered that Motown and Broadway have a lot in common - a family of wonderfully talented, passionate, hardworking young people, fiercely competitive but also full of love and appreciation for the work, for each other and for the people in the audience.