Max McKeown Quotes

There is something special when creative people get together.

It's interesting to see what people who you find talented come up with, so you work with them. Sometimes ideas come along quicker cause they'll come up with something and you'll be like, "It would have taken me forever to get to that point!" Because you're talking together, your brains are moving faster.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative.

The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.

I always love working with other creative talent.

A great idea is simply the combination of many good ideas.

If I collaborate with people, ideas...they take interesting turns and twists, and I'm excited for that and that process and excited to see what we come up with.

We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever.

If you put enough smart people together in one space, good things happen.

I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

I think you can write very good comedy without a partner, but what I love about it, working with a partner, is that you get to places you'd never get on your own. It's like when God was designing the world and decided we couldn't have children without a partner; it was a way of mixing up the genes so you'd get a more interesting product.

Creative collaboration is awesome.

I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'

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

Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a very diverse group and the result is always more interesting than something I could have done by myself.

If the work requires smart, talented, creative people, then more than anything, you want to enable folks on the team to create.

Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click.

You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.

I find that it's nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else's feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself.

The fun for me in collaboration is, one, working with other people just makes you smarter; that's proven.

People are sources not just of consumption but of innovation.

I love leaving the door open to good ideas. I love the collaborative swirl. I get charged by problem-solving, usually under some kind of stress - the sun is going down, and we have eight minutes, and we have to solve it. Great things come out of it.