Edward Norton Quotes

One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.

Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.

Of course it's always easy when you work with people that worked together, or you work with people that you worked with before, because you develop over years some sort of shorthand of communion that is always very valuable.

On the 'X-Men' films, people are always throwing out ideas and trying to get the shot to look the best and make the most sense, and to get it done efficiently. Everybody collaborates and everybody is very open to new ideas.

It's a sign that you have a good work relationship if you don't have to analyze. That's usually a good sign within creative work.

When you make many films with the same actors you can develop a special understanding with them. I love working with people I know and that I trust.

It's easier to be creative if you've got other people to play with.

Of course, from time to time, I want to do everything myself and be more involved on my own with the creative process. But I don't mind the collaboration at all.

When you work on a graphic novel or a film with people you've been together through a lot and you've exposed your secrets and weaker sides to each other.

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

Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, connecting people.

I think that I've learned to relax, and trust in and hire very talented people, and trust in their abilities a little more.

Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.

Yeah, improvising only really works 100% when you're with somebody.

I'm learning more and more to share creativity with the crew and actors. A film crew is more powerful if you listen to them, but it does make my job more tough because I have to listen.

Every film you work on is different, and that's part of what it's like for anybody who works on a film, is to learn how to work with others. Learn from top to bottom. Actors have to learn how to work with the director and the director has to learn how to work with actors, and that's not just those two departments.

Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with.

Part of the process of acting in a film that you're also directing is really trusting the people around you to capture your vision, which hopefully you have communicated well to them.

Fashion is much more collaborative than one might think. You have to have an idea and vision, and you have to communicate that vision to a team of people, and you have to create an environment that allows those people to give the best that they can give.

It's always a help when you have worked with someone as you've got to know them a bit already.

You're working with models who are looking at their watch, and it didn't work for me. I wanted to have relationships with amazing people.

I love collaborating with people.

Creative collaboration is awesome.

This was all very new to me and I did not want to ruin his film! So we worked hard on that basis of confidence that is needed to collaborate comfortably.

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.