Collaborative Conflict Quotes

I didn't get along with most of the players I played against, but the one guy I did get along with was my greatest rival, so it can be done.

Any time you do a movie, there are going to be war wounds that you end up getting.

Len and I had parted musical ways and this was one of the problems.

In great teams conflict becomes productive.

From our earliest days in Liverpool, George and I on the one hand and Paul on the other had different musical tastes. Paul preferred 'pop type' music and we preferred what is now called 'underground'. This may have led to arguments, particularly between Paul and George, but the contrast in tastes, I'm sure, did more good than harm, musically speaking, and contributed to our success.

It's impossible having five, six, seven people in a room being creative together and not fight, because you want to fight. It's the only way creativity works, if you all put your ideas in.

'The White Album' is so cool because it was around the time when the Beatles started to not like each other, so they would each go off and do their own thing. It's all over the place, but that's what makes the album so brilliant.

If you really want to have an anarchist experience, make a movie with a studio.