Fred Frith Quotes

I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

I'm not really a control person, and I'm a big believer in collaboration. I like to have a friend.

I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person.

When it's a good director, you can feel when they trust you when they cast you.

Steve took my counsel on everything. He appreciated that I loved business and let me do that end of it. We complemented each other and had a natural, fun competitiveness.

Me and Urijah are really good friends. Not just business partners in the gym, but friends.

Edward stretched out his arm, his hand curled into a fist. Seth grinned, revealing the long row of dagger teeth, and bumped his nose against Edward's hand. "Nice teamwork," Edward murmured.

Gucci Mane is my brother, Birdman also, we're working together but it is a form of brotherhood. We're friends but there is no need to contract. In a sense, I'm signed on their labels, but there is no lawyer, no contract.

Treat [Williams] and I have remained sort of like war buddies. He's a good guy. It doesn't matter who is the wingman, you just know that you work good together.

The people I chose to work with me on this album are there because I have a personal relationship with them.

So I decided to form a production company with my wife and our partner Diane.

When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself into the director's arms, into their universe.

When I give over to somebody's vision rather than have an idea of what I need to do, it takes me to places I wouldn't have got to by myself. I'm always attracted to a strong director.

That's a great feeling to know that I'm going into a project that I have no idea what will become of that movie, but I really trust Ang Lee. And I really trusted Ron. It's just really nice to work with people that you feel that way about.

I like it when an actor is secure enough to ask questions, and the director is secure enough not to be threatened by that.

To try and stand outside the marriage, I'd say we have complementary capabilities. I do the hustling and the business. I do more script reading. I handle contracts.

My wife and I don't compete. We know each other's preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That's what friends do.

I think a good relationship is about collaboration.

If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.

I went to work with a guy named Matt Fuller, who was a Mothers fan, and low and behold, Arthur was working for him also. We worked together for about six months and decided to strike out on our own.

All lasting business is built on friendship.

Paramount Pictures is a perfect partner for Electric Entertainment, with the most stable group of executives in Hollywood and unparalleled global promotion and distribution reach.

Eddy Arnold was a great friend of mine, and through the years, Eddy and I, we did a lot of shows together, and we even worked in some real estate transaction things together, and he helped me there. You know, he was a great real estate man.