Lawrence Halprin Quotes

People think if you're a movie star, you're the boss. But first of all, I'm not a movie star, I'm in a very different place. I'm not looking to do what I want - I am looking for what we can find. It's a creative process.

The directors I respect are the ones who have a collaborative attitude, who collaborate with actors.

It's interesting that instead of having to get tighter and more restricted for a collaboration, strangely enough, from the beginning, we've actually been more confident that we could handle this.

Camaraderie doesn't happen by accident; developing a strong sense of trust, accountability, and togetherness around team goals requires intentional effort.

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.

For those of us who make music together, I think it's important to realize that generosity on both sides is actually going to produce the biggest possibility.

When you work with a DeNiro or Hoffman, they love what they do so much that there's never any competitive vibe. It's more about how do we do this thing together.

I just can't say enough about the actors having faith and trust in the writers and the writers having faith and trust in the actors.

Some movies you fall a step behind, and some you stay in the same place, make the same choices. And then sometimes there are people who know more than you but show you, and that's the maximum you can hope for - doing that with someone who says, 'I like you for what you are, and I want you to be in my picture.'

Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.

Some couples could not work together but we enjoy working on our projects and building our art business.

I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better.

In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.

In truth, I have always been amazed by a group of people who all work toward putting one person's vision forward - that's an interesting story for me.

You've got to have confidence and trust in your cast. You have to have confidence and trust in your director, in your editor. It's such a team effort; I really think you have to pull yourself out of it and just trust. I think the number one thing you can do is just trust everyone around you.

What goes on between the actor and director is sacred.

If you believe in yourself, somebody will find you that believes in you just as much, if not more.

That's the most important thing to me - that if I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together.

I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.

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

People stayed with me and worked extra hard for me because I could see the potential in them - I'm not so sure they could see the potential in me.

Relationships are about helping motivate each other to be all that you can be.

I'm not an expert in instruments, beat programming, or electronics. For some people it's all about doing it themselves. But for me, it's all about find the people that can help make my vision come true.

The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.

The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.