Collective Input Quotes

Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.

Any decision made by my father was the result of a process that had involved many voices and which sometimes had taken weeks or months.

The bulk of my input comes from my peers.

It's a very collaborative environment [making The Office]. We always do takes of how it's scripted, but then we also mix it up a lot too. And it's kind of a crapshoot, you never know which one... I mean a lot of time improvisation doesn't go anywhere and it's not good at all but, so what was written is often times better.

A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.

When I'm working with another writer, I tend to make a lot of effort. When I collaborate with a writer, I'm not interested in credit, but I'm feeding him stuff all the time that I feel is important to shaping the script.

Integration is a word of the past, the word of the future and the word of the present is contribution.

I don't have all the answers, so my goal is to make sure that the 180-some odd members of the RSC each have a seat at the table where we can talk about their vision.

And as you said, everyone contributed; certain areas of material came from certain individuals.

The audience is not your boss. They are your collaborators and when you collaborate with someone you don't have to listen to everything they think or say.

We get a better book when everyone's allowed to do their best work on it. I don't want to prevent anybody from bringing their ideas to a project.

I like to think that the stuff I do is oftentimes collaborative, so to have other people in it felt natural.