Edward Zwick Quotes

There's shorthand that happens when you work with someone you know where you can almost finish each other's sentences. There's just a certain back and forth that becomes much easier with someone you've worked with for so long.

You wanna work with people who you have a rapport with. You finish each other's sentences a bit creatively when you've worked together for a while.

Of course it's always easy when you work with people that worked together, or you work with people that you worked with before, because you develop over years some sort of shorthand of communion that is always very valuable.

Usually I'm trying to work with people that I've worked with before, so we have a certain amount of know-how and what we're going to do together.

Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.

Personally, I do the best work with people I'm closest with. I know what their tastes are, and they are similar to mine. That close personal relationship is what delivers the best work.

Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because you have to find the right idea.

If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.

It's always a help when you have worked with someone as you've got to know them a bit already.

You know, you can have someone who's the very best at something, but if there's not that kind of chemistry, collaborating is not going to amount to anything.

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 always appreciated working with people I have chemistry with, who are friends, and where you feel that the work is growing while you are getting to know each other better.

Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together.

You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back.

I have two or three guys that I'm really close to. We have a great friendship, and I think that helps our songwriting relationship. It's hard to start... with new people and cover the ground that I've covered with those guys.

Everyone that I work with is a friend. I won't make a record with anyone unless we kick it.

There was something really special about working with Lena Dunham. I immediately felt very comfortable with her, and we spoke the same language.

I suppose there are many, but I cannot imagine ever having a more perfect collaboration than that which Penn-san and I shared. It was based upon mutual trust, respect, and a desire to have our own work pushed to new places. And it always resulted in delight.

When you know someone, and you get to work with them, automatically there is this comfort zone which comes in.

I usually work with the director and it's just a collaboration between me and the one person. I think you make good movies that way. If the director and the composer can have this common goal and this excitement about making something great, then you're going to do something good.

...when you collaborate with someone else on something creative, you get to places that you would never get to on your own. The way an idea builds as it careens back and forth between good writers is so unpredictable. Sometimes it depends on people misunderstanding each other, and that's why I don't think there's any such thing as a mistake in the creative process. You never know where it might lead.

In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.

The dance that happens, between actor and director, is a very delicate thing...it's why people tend to work together on many films over and over.

Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It's like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart.

You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain.