Johan Renck Quotes

The real drawback when you write with a partner is that where you want it to go and where they want it to go is similar, but not exactly lined up, and that's where it's going to lead you into trouble.

It is hard for 2 creative people to work together for that length of time and not fall out.

But we wanted to work in a way we never had, which was write everything together. We had to face each other in the same creative room, which gets tougher as you get older, because you don't want to be confrontational.

Three writers together would be a nightmare of obstreperous self-consciousness.

When you're in this music thing, and you got friends involved in this, of course ya'll gonna have disagreements, and that's gon' be the outcome: we gon' fight each other.

Co-directing is not possible with my brother. We have very different opinions.

When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.

There's this whole other element of film scoring, which is the social and psychological side of how you're dealing with people... And that is not always in sync with what's right for the picture.

Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because you have to find the right idea.

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

Being a producer, I deal with a lot of different directors, and some of them would drive me insane with all the different histrionics, and the mystique that they carry.

It's very difficult sometimes having bands, you know, when all the members aren't on the same page.

This is one of my lesser moments, and one I'm not proud to admit to, but there's always a time I feel the need to have control over the process and try to defend the song from the person I'm writing with. It never, ever helps and always causes problems.

The hardest part, for me, is being in the band and knowing the way I want certain things to sound, but also having to listen to opinions, and very valid opinions, of my bandmates. So, sometimes, I'll have to have conversations with them as a producer and then conversations with them as a bandmate.

Being in a band, you become each other's best friends as well as each other's worst enemies.

I think it's my job to fight. The studio makes you question your idea, and you have to prove it.

Being in a band is hard. Even if you like somebody, you start to argue over silly things.

I always felt like there were always egos involved when I was trying to get music finished in New Order. Sometimes it would feel like I was running through water.

Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn't happening at all, and our chemistry as people broke down because of that.

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.

When you're in a band, inevitably, someone is siding with someone else, and you're fighting over something that happened in the band five years ago.

Certainly when, you know, you put a lot of creative people together, there's ego and tension and all that stuff comes into play. But on the flip side, there's a lot of camaraderie and closeness.

Film is a very collaborative medium. If you're smart enough, you learn how to maintain your vision while drawing resourcefully from all the people around you.

When you get together in a group, it becomes like a family, with the different personalities and the politics that comes with being in a band. It's different than bringing something in by yourself.