Lee Unkrich Quotes

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

Creative collaboration is awesome.

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.

When you need to innovate, you need collaboration.

Collaboration is like carbonation for fresh ideas. Working together bubbles up ideas you would not have come up with solo, which gets you further faster.

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

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

Watching TV on your own is not very inspiring. But meeting people is where you get new ideas and get things done.

Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate.

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

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

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

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

Innovation at Apple has always been a team game. It has always been a case where you have a number of small groups working together.

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.

It's really lonely trying to build something by yourself. It's good to have thought partners to bounce ideas off of.

Being able to chuck ideas around and bounce ideas off each other with anyone I'm working with is just something I love to do, that's how most of these ideas are formed.

So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with people about it, get ideas moving among that group of 100 people, get different people together to explore different aspects of it quietly, and, you know – just explore things.

It all starts with a great idea and teamwork.

Whenever a maker and a thinker get together, really cool stuff happens.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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