Helena Bonham Carter Quotes

On a team, trust is all about vulnerability, which is difficult for most people.

One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.

I think every time you work with another collaborator, there's an adjustment process where you figure out the other person's strengths, and that has definitely happened for me.

I think it's important for us, as a team, to know each other. Know our teammates and our coaches. To interact with them is more important than to be 'liked' by whoever on Chatrun.

When you have a fruitful relationship with someone, and you've both chosen to work together, then it can spawn really good things.

We tend to just think about how hard it is to never have thrown to a guy. That is true, every guy has their own way of doing things and you build a rapport with guys throughout the course of the year and throughout practice and all of that.

It's all about long-term, sustaining relationships.

We should always choose to work with people we love. They are the ones who will watch our back and our future.

A lot of making a movie is the comfort level of the people. It's just feeling open. We need to get along. We have to know something about each other.

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 best way to know people is to work with them.

Trust is the foundation of real teamwork (there is nothing touchy-feely about this).

No idea will work if people don't trust your intentions toward them.

When you make many films with the same actors you can develop a special understanding with them. I love working with people I know and that I trust.

I also have an amazing codesigner and an amazing partnership with New York & Co. The exciting part of growing together and having this kind of long-term relationship is that they can anticipate where I'm going with something. So our relationship is very defined, it's a true partnership so I'm not doing it all by myself.

It's very important to me, who I play with and the same about picking a crew of people.

The work that we do is so tricky because it rests on our shoulders, but it's also collaborative and part of it is trusting the people that you're working with.

Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.

When you work on a graphic novel or a film with people you've been together through a lot and you've exposed your secrets and weaker sides to each other.

Why not work with your friends? It's working with people you know, and you share the same sensibility.

Jason always tried to build a good relationship with his team. He'd learned the hard way that if somebody was going to have your back in a fight, it was better if you found some common ground and trusted each other. But Nico wasn't easy to figure out.

My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.

In every relationship, you have to be a team.

I fully trust Abbas-Mustan. We have worked together in the past, so I have full faith in them.

It has to be a partnership. I go back to Ted Thompson's opening press conference, and he talked about partnership. We had a hell of a partnership for 12 years.