Mark Duplass Quotes

Acting is not about competing. Acting is about cooperating. Acting is about collaboration. It's about your utility, your usefulness, your capacity to add to the work that has already been done and will be done. You're just part of a team. I never feel competitive about acting.

I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.

There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.

What's great about collaborating is getting to work with wonderful people. That's what theatre is about: other people getting you to give your best, and getting everyone else's best out of them.

When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and hairdresser I've ever worked with.

Obviously every one of them was special to that particular team, all the people that were involved with it.

Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.

It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody's contribution is important.

You are only as good as your team.

I like being part of a team.

One of the challenges of being a director is often you don't get to work with your peers. You know, writers can write together, and as a director you get to work with so many wonderful actors and writers and designers. But it's pretty rare that you get a chance to partner in that way with another director.

It's such an amazing team working with both Marvel and Sony, and I have the support of just the very best technicians in the world.

Bam understands the concept of a team and bringing out more out of somebody else, and he finds enjoyment and pride out of making somebody else better.

You have one captain but, for me, it should be everyone who says something and help each other, then you can be a great team.

With any sort of major change we need to make in our lives, it's much easier to do it with other people. We succeed and thrive best when we work together and support each other. When we struggle alone, that's when the struggle can seem impossible.

Filmmaking is hard enough as it is. If you can find a group you love working with, it makes it just a little bit easier.

Popovich is always talking about team.

That's what a team does is stay together.

No matter what your goals are, you've got to bring other people onto your team. For one thing, if you surround yourself with people who want to be successful, you become successful.

As the workplace becomes more specialized, from offices to medical centers to factories, teams of people must accomplish their work by collaborating with each other. In my work in filmmaking, we need talented individuals with technical skills, but their abilities to communicate and work with others are just as valuable.

You better play together as a team or you sit.

I like to be a team player. All the projects I do are collaborations. And I want to solicit the opinions and help of other people. I'm not interested in being the one in charge.

Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics.

When your great players are team players, everybody else follows their lead. The best team doesn't always win - it's usually the team that gets along best.

While there's no 'I' in team, there's also no 'you', okay? So back off.