Mutual Contribution Quotes

A film is not done by one person. It's done by a lot of people. I love this whole collaborative aspect. When it works well, you end up with something better than any of us started out to do.

I Can't win the World Cup alone

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

Just because someone isn't allowing you to pay for the date, it doesn't mean you can't contribute on some level. For example, if someone took you for dinner and a movie, they may have paid for the dinner, they may have paid for the movie tickets, but then you buy the popcorn.

My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort.

Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make me, either. I think it was a combination. I think that's what made it work.

The whole can be greater than the sum of it's parts, that we all have something to put in the pie to make it better, and that the collaborative interaction works.

Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.

You go in thinking you have to do this all by yourself, and what I learned was no, when you hire great people, they do so much for you.

The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.

Whatever's missing in your relationship, including a marriage, is what you're not bringing to it.

Science is not like the Olympic Games or something where there's a lot of people all trying to win gold medals, and if you don't get a gold medal, you're nothing. There are actually a lot of people working together and contributing to the science - and the science is the important thing.

I only get the points because I have team-mates who do the work and put me in the position to get them.

Everything I've done feels like I'm just as much a part of it as if I was the producer. It's still the same job: all of us together figuring out the common good for a song. That's the only thing that matters. It's not like, "I'm the boss, and I'm gonna tell you what to play."

One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well.

It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?

With a game, you're only one part of a team, and what emerges at launch is very much the culmination of the whole team's efforts. You can be proud of playing your part, but it doesn't ever belong to you.

All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.

We are all guilty and we all have to be part of the solution. We have to do the best we can and then try to do better. It's not about any one person doing everything; it's about all of us doing something and then maybe a little more.