One of the things that I think makes me successful is the way in which I collaborate with others. In my opinion, nothing great is ever the product of one mind. It’s always a consequence of some sort of self-critical collaboration. – Nick Hanauer
I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting… I liked the idea of collaboration, and I thought if I’m gonna write plays, I should learn something about speaking the lines that I might try to write. – David Duchovny
Philosophically, Dubois may have had no problem with a great African American institution. On the other hand, he always believed ultimately in the co-mingling of groups and the interplay of talents and in the collaboration of groups. – David Levering Lewis
Movies are a collaboration, I feel, so I didn’t think of myself as an authoritative figure as much. – Gia Coppola
When I was a kid it was much more difficult. You’re trying to understand what the director wants. It’s a learning process. Now, you go in and it’s more of a collaboration. – Moises Arias
There are a lot of people who’ve been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop. – Nat Friedman
You never know when you read a script how it’s going to turn out because so much depends on the collaboration between people. If I’d been in some of the movies I turned down, maybe they wouldn’t have been a success. – Molly Ringwald
I’ve never been asked to do a collaboration. I guess I just don’t give off that come-and-get-me vibe. I wouldn’t be adverse to doing one with Coldplay or U2 – anyone who sells 50 million albums. – Noel Gallagher
Willow and I definitely talked about doing a collaboration. She really loves rock music, so she wants to come on and get crazy with me on a track. Which I would love, because she has a fantastic voice. – Jada Pinkett Smith
This band is a real collaboration, and I’m greatful to anybody who can appreciate our music. It doesn’t have to be a certain kind of fan or person or anything. I think there’s a little bit of something for everybody on this record. – Krist Novoselic
I’m not really a control person, and I’m a big believer in collaboration. I like to have a friend. – Kristen Schaal
As far as I’m concerned, collaboration is the essence of life. It’s wonderful to be able to have talents, and, very often, we think that we know what our talents are, or we find out through a back door that we have a talent. I know that I found out I was a lyricist quite through a back door. – Lesley Gore
Huge open source organizations like Red Hat and Mozilla manage the collaboration of hundreds of people who don’t know one another and have spent no time hanging around the water cooler. – Margaret Heffernan
I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples. – Joe Pantoliano
Hopefully, if not it’s not working right. I’m like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas. – Jim Jarmusch
I want to do a collaboration or some kind of side thing or some soundtrack work. Because I’ve been doing this for years and years. I’d like to just step out and try something different. – Jon Crosby
Collaboration to me is… my favorite collaboration in the theatre is the collaboration between the actors and the audience because it’s just that thing that happens when the only thing left that is left on the human scale is that human beings come to look at other human beings act out stories. – John Benjamin Hickey
In 1967, I had formed a collaboration with Hermann Eggerer, then of Muenchen, and together, we solved the problem of the ‘asymmetric methyl group’ and applied the solution in some of the many ways that have proved possible. – John Cornforth
I am always making sketches of how information should look or mapping out a marketing campaign. When I present my notes, people start responding to them. Desktop publishing makes everything look slick. When you present sketches, it helps start the dialogue and collaboration. – John Katzman
The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer? – Karen Fairchild
In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities. – Jack Zipes
The key to this collaboration – which we undertook after much deliberation – was to stretch creatively. New characters, new locales, new form (the novella). – Jonathan Kellerman
I don’t know if it’d be any time soon but I’d really like to work on a collaboration with somebody – I always have ideas for stuff like that. – Leighton Meester
We’ll continue to expand our footprint… Oracle’s Fusion cloud applications for HCM, CRM and ERP all have a new simplified user interface and an integrated social network that makes our enterprise applications as easy-to-use and familiar as Facebook, while enabling better collaboration and teamwork among your employees and your customers. – Larry Ellison
What I enjoy is a collaboration. Working with other like-minded people. People who have brilliant minds and big hearts. – Julian Ovenden
Use people whom you’re excited by and who share your excitement… The ideal collaboration is one in which the actor and director are saying to each other, ‘I can’t believe how lucky we are to be making a movie together.’ – James Toback
But things can happen in a band, or any type of collaboration, that would not otherwise happen. – Jim Coleman
