Warren Ellis Quotes

I believe in collaboration. I think that is the most entertaining and effective way to write for me, personally.

I actually like the collaboration of working with different artists.

I believe everything creative is somewhat collaborative. If you're a painter and someone stretches your canvas, it was collaborative on some level.

Life is very complicated. I look to collaborate with artistic people and to go into an endeavor without judgment and to hopefully be treated with the same.

The arts are the most uniquely suited to provide young people with critical-thinking skills, problem-solving, teamwork and collaboration, empathy and tolerance and compassion, looking at the other point of views.

Not being a genius, I believe in collaboration, and my background as a problem solver means I've never been afraid to work with people cleverer than myself.

Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.

I'd love to collaborate with a writer, but I'm such a control freak, it might be difficult.

Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

I think that I am willing to do anything. I like to collaborate. If my voice will be heard, than I will do some research and think about it.

Making movies was a real weird kind of adult experience. In a way it was like MIT, in that it was a great education. The big lesson is, people are people. They're smart, funny, creative people, but they're people.

I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.

A lot of times, directors don't know how to speak to actors, or writers don't know how to communicate.

Obviously in Art of Noise, I'm just part of the group, and when I do film scores, it's always in collaboration with the director and other people involved.

When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.

Creative collaboration is awesome.

I really like writing television, and I like the collaborative writers room feeling. It's ten people, and you're together every day laughing your heads off.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis.

As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me.

I'd work with Danny Boyle every day of the week. No matter what he was doing I would do that.

I love discussing the ins and outs of the collaborative nature of writing.

Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective.