Rain Phoenix Quotes

Here's a simple truth: When you surround a good idea with brilliant people, it changes. No matter how much you plan, great ideas have a mind of their own.

I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.

Every time I work on a new set, I take whatever I can from it and learn as much as I can around the people who I am working with.

Working on new projects gives you the opportunity to learn and absorb new things.

I enjoy being given a certain amount of freedom in order to interpret or to come up with stuff, but I do enjoy collaboration. I seek and thrive on projects where I am going to learn from the people I'm working with.

The best part of my carreer is getting to meet so many different people, because I learn so much from everyone.

I like to see how other people work and be part of their stuff and see what I can do to be part of their worlds. Its a pretty big challenge, and that excites me.

I want to do whatever people allow me to do with great people and have a great time doing it.

With each job that you're given an opportunity to do, you're asked to use new parts of yourself and to figure the play out with other tools that you perhaps didn't use with the last show.

Over the years, I've learnt from co-actors, directors, technicians, and even from junior artists.

To be able to work with my idols is incredible. You learn so much, and they're wonderful as people, too.

I'm a great collaborator. I really am. I will steal anyone's idea if it is a good one.

In an age of exponential change, we need the power of diverse thinking, and we cannot afford to leave any talent untapped.

Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.

Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style - the director, the actor I'm working with.

Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.

Vince or Brad or Benicio would say, Maybe we should try this, and Guy was open to changes.

You know, people sometimes say to me, 'Do you prefer to do this or that, act or do stand-up or write' but the thing that I enjoy most is the difference between all of them, because you're always learning. I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything. I'm actually lucky to have the chance to fail at all of them.

One of the things I've learned by working on the 'Walking Dead' and other TV shows is to be more tolerant of other people's process.

The goal for me has always been to learn how to express myself in radio and to have fun doing it and work with whatever contingencies arise.

Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

If you have somebody who's brilliant and highly creative with a different point of view than you have, and a very different intellectual background, great things can happen.

I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.