Damon Dash Quotes

Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.

When you're part of an ensemble and share the screen with so many people, you become close to them because you're hanging out all the time. Obviously you have your ups and downs, but that kind of brings you closer in many ways.

People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.

It's very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable.

I don't like to work with people I don't have any connection with.

I don't know how people do this job collaboratively if they don't really get along. You're spending all day every day for months and years on end with somebody.

We work more than we do anything else in our lives, but the average person only interacts with four to five colleagues. Outside of that, they don't build that many relationships.

I think I become close to the people that I work with.

In a creative business, if you're happy, it will come out in your work. I don't see how you can be happy if you don't like the people you're working with and if they aren't a joy to have fun with.

I love to hang out and talk to people on set, especially when I start a new job to get to know them. I like to learn things from the crew so I sit around and ask them technical questions, when I think of them.

You're working with models who are looking at their watch, and it didn't work for me. I wanted to have relationships with amazing people.

I like to know who I'm working with, and it's important because they've got to be able to bring something to the party.

I've learned several lessons over the years. First, never take yourself too seriously, or work is boring. Next, people make the difference. You can have great technology, but if it's not complemented by great people, it won't go anywhere. Finally, customers buy from people they like.

I think it really makes a difference when you know the people that you're working with, when you develop a relationship.

There's nothing like working with your mates - it's the way it should be, as far as I'm concerned.

Historically, NBCUniversal had brilliant people, but some of them didn't do a very good job of working together.

You have to realise that everyone that you are working with is important. It doesn't matter where you are starting from; you are always going to run back into those people, and they are going to talk, and that's going to be the base of whether you get good opportunities or not.

You must develop personal contacts if you want to be successful.

You want to work with people who you like and have an easy rapport with.

My thing is, and I've always been this way - to get to know as many people as I possibly can on a personal level, so that way, when you get on the football field, you've got your buddy right beside you, and you're ready to go.

I'm surprised that I get to be in the same room with half the people that I'm working with.

I'm quite a social person, quite a communicator, and I like to have the work of other people around.

It's really, really hard to get in rooms with people you don't usually work with and try to find common ground.

Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.

You don't often find a team where people are really friends with each other.