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• Collaboration is like the sex of creativity.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Sex, Creativity

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• The work is different in the sense that I haven't had to travel round the world raising money, or work from the genesis of the project. But the collaboration feels clear always, it's sort of my drug, I'm in it for the conversation. The conversation's the most important part of it.

  Tilda Swinton

  Drug, Important, Different

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Contemporary art and manga - what is the same about them? Nothing, right? The manga industry has a lot of talented people, but contemporary art works on more of a solitary model. No one embarks on collaboration in contemporary art in order to make money. But in the manga world, everyone is invested in collaboration. The most important point is that the manga industry constantly encourages new creations and creators.

  Takashi Murakami

  Art, Order, People

  Interview with Alison Gingeras, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 15, 2010.

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• I'm not a huge fan of covers in general, but collaborations always make them more fun - they're sort of neutral territory.

  Keith Murray

  Fun, Fans, Territory

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• Writing a screen play with a group of collaborators is like the Lennon McCartney collaboration .... sometimes one or two people do more than others on certain parts of the process and vice versa.

  Peter Jackson

  Writing, Play, Two

  "Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro Answer Hobbit Questions". Online chat, www.slashfilm.com. May 24, 2008.

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• To the extent that the scientist's capacity for pursuing the truth depends upon costly apparatus, institutional collaboration and heavy capital investment by government or industry he is no longer his own master.

  Lewis Mumford

  Government, Investment, Scientist

  Lewis Mumford (1970). “The myth of the machine”

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• My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Art, Musician, Form

  "It’s Sufjan Stevens’ Way or the Highway". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2009.

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• I always need a support team, even at Donna Karan. I like collaborating. There is something in collaboration that is wonderful.

  Donna Karan

  Team, Support, Needs

  Interview with Calvin Klein, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2009.

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• The less you offer, the more readers are forced to bring the world to life with their own visual imaginings. I personally hate an illustration of a character on a jacket of a book. I never want to have someone show me what the character really looks like - or what some artist has decided the character really looks like - because it always looks wrong to me. I realize that I prefer to kind of meet the text halfway and offer a lot of visual collaborations from my own imaginative response to the sentences.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Hate, Book, Character

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2007.

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• One of the things that is always difficult about a collaboration is that you don't necessarily find the same thing funny. And so the challenge becomes, how do you tell the other person that you don't think something's funny? The best collaborations tend to be when you are willing to be told that. But there's also ego involved, and so there's a lot of frustration in knowing that you're writing something, and the other person, on some level, needs to think that it's funny.

  Michael Showalter

  Writing, Thinking, Frustration

  "Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter have issues". Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. October 16, 2009.

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• And when you're with a great crew like we had, it becomes a thrilling, again, collaboration, which is to me one of the great aspects of the process that you go through. I find myself at this point in my career, getting potentially, incredibly bored if I stand around a lot, so that's why I really like the pace of television.

  Glenn Close

  Careers, Bored, Pace

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, www.movieweb.com. October 24, 2007.

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• I'm super hard on myself anytime I think of an idea for a collaboration. I will rack my brain trying to think of one. I wait for the right person. It stresses me to think that I'd do a collaboration with someone and not make it the best possible opportunity.

  Lilly Singh

  Stress, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I have learned that collaboration are everything to me. Music is a social thing. If there are no ears to hear it, it has no value. I have really loved getting input from other great musicians- like recording strings with my family or making weird synth sounds with tore nissen.

  Oh Land

  Ears, Input, Musician

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• That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.

  Ken Thompson

  Beauty, Has Beens

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• 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.

  Harrison Ford

  Team, Acting, Done

  "Harrison Ford, Liam Hemsworth, Amber Heard, Lucas Till, and Director Robert Luketic Talk PARANOIA, Real-Life Parallels, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 12, 2013.

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• Collaboration is risky. If it fails, if the occupation is wound up prematurely and the bad guys come back to power, you might find yourself in some serious trouble.

  Niall Ferguson

  Guy, Finding Yourself, Occupation

  "Imperial Denial". Interview with Nonna Gorilovskaya, www.motherjones.com. May 21, 2004.

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• 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.

  Howard Shore

  Thinking, Goal, Good Movie

  Source: collider.com

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• When I was a kid it was much more difficult. You're trying to understand what the director wants. It's a learning process. Now, you go in and it's more of a collaboration.

  Moises Arias

  Kids, Trying, Want

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like to foster an atmosphere on set of collaboration and openness and risk taking. The beauty is when you have such brilliantly talented people as I did in my cast, you definitely don't want to fetter them in any sense. You want them to be able to go out there and do their thing and feel confident in doing their thing, because ultimately I'm the person who gets the credit which is great.

  Dan Mazer

  People, Risk, Atmosphere

  Source: collider.com

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• People put on their earphones, they lay out their phones, they put - open up their computers, and they convince themselves that they're most productive when they're focused on their e-mail, when, really, they're ignoring the cafeteria, the watercooler, the meetings with colleagues, the times when really the creativity, collaboration happens.

  Judy Woodruff

  Creativity, Phones, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's always a good collaboration between the actor and the writer and the director to try stuff out, during the process.

  Mark Consuelos

  Trying, Directors, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I love the idea of creative collaboration. I love the idea of exploring marriages, particularly ones that are in process for a long time.

  Sacha Gervasi

  Ideas, Creative Collaboration, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• Big Fish was the first movie that we worked on together, and I had already written it. We had another director, but that director didn't do it. So, it was just a Hail Mary to Tim, and Tim said that he wanted to do it and I was like, "That's fantastic!" But, there wasn't a lot of collaboration because he knew what he wanted to do and just did it. There were very minor changes for Big Fish.

  John August

  Big Fish, Together, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• Working with an incredibly strong script is the thing that gives you the most confidence. If you go into an episode knowing the script is strong, I just feel like that's where it all starts. All collaborations that happen, in addition to that, are just bonuses, at that point.

  Ty Burrell

  Strong, Knowing, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• The act of collaboration must start with dialogue. You cannot build relationships without having an understanding of your potential partners, and you cannot achieve that understanding without a special form of communication that goes beyond ordinary conversation.

  Daniel Yankelovich

  Communication, Understanding, Special

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