Rose McIver Quotes

One of the great things I learned from how cooperative theater is, you can't be too precious about your ideas.

I know how to work with people. I've worked with the same people for 10 years. I'm not that kind of auteur. I hear ideas.

I like to come to the set with very strong ideas and strong opinions about how to do things. And I like also dealing with somebody who's like that.

I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge.

But, you always have to listen to everyone, because I'm not always right and other people have great ideas, too. I think that makes great moviemaking.

I wanted to be open. On the last project, "Affection," I co-wrote everything. Sometimes, I think, it's smart to step away and be open.

I bring ideas to set, and I'm more than willing for those to be affected and be malleable based on what the other person gives me. I don't know what another actor is going to give me, on the day, and I don't want to be so hard and fast in my technique that I'm not open to what's coming.

As a writer, you're really in control of almost everything. That's not the case in TV. You have to be prepared to work with a lot of people to make something happen, and you got to be prepared, at least in the beginning, to not be too good at your specific task.

Vince or Brad or Benicio would say, Maybe we should try this, and Guy was open to changes.

Pretty much, I am always open to input from everyone; although I don't require it, the feedback is conducive to getting the play together.

When you collaborate, you have to be willing to scrap a lot.

Every scene is on the table to collaborate on, to pick apart, to try a million different ways. Usually, what ends up occurring in the end is something that no single person knew would happen or had planned for.

I think that part of the reason I like collaboration so much is because it's something unexpected coming in, and you have to stretch yourself to absorb it.

Van Gaal is receptive to other people's ideas.

I learn from everybody on a film set.

The worst thing when you're working is to say, 'I have a question,' and the other person goes, 'No! This is what it is.' That kind of rigidity is very challenging because musicals are constantly mutating.

I don't want the baggage of knowing things when I walk on to a set. I am more comfortable being an empty slate, surrendering before a director and writer's vision. I've realised that this is the best way for me to function.

I'm a big believer in bringing in other creative minds; I do it in my commercial work.

I'm a great collaborator. I really am. I will steal anyone's idea if it is a good one.

Cooperation - To get cooperation, you must give cooperation. Always seek to find the best way rather than insisting on your own way.

I'm open to whatever. I think sometimes when people collaborate these days, it's a little bit convenient.

Some directors are like it's their... nothing can change, nothing can move. I like collaborating, even when an extra has an idea, I like to bring to really have collaboration.

When you work with an actor and then you discover new things that are better, I think you gotta be free to be able to go with the new things that you're finding. I think that's very important. I have a strong idea when I go to shoot a movie but I also love to discover things when I'm on set as well.

The studio's a collaborative environment. I just try to let people bring their own ideas to the songs and see what happens.

Sometimes we can make everything a little too perfect. I always was a fan of giving direction, but every now and then going, "I don't know. What do you think? Let's see what happens."