When you're collaborating with somebody who's got a lot of stuff they haven't worked out yet, you're working out their vision as well.
The challenge is the same whether or not I'm collaborating: to empathize with your reader and to tell a story that will matter to him or her. But the mechanics of going about that challenge change when you're collaborating, because you have someone to help refine your thinking and expand your vision of what might happen.
As a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who are trying to help you find what you need and what you want.
Any artist that's as serious about making music as I am, I'm cool with that. But if you tellin' me, "Man, send me a verse and I'ma send you a verse. " No. That's not collaborating. We don't know each other and I'm serous about this music.
Acting is always more fun for me. I love being a part of a story, I love collaborating, I love working with different directors. If I just directed more and more, it would lessen the opportunity to work with all these big directors that I've had the opportunity to work with.
What I love about collaborating is that you're working with other minds that work differently to yours.
I love collaborating.
Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what's happening on the free Internet is more akin to the 'crowdsourcing' of journalists and other content creators by advertisers who no longer have to pay them - only the search engines that parse their articles.
I always need a support team, even at Donna Karan. I like collaborating. There is something in collaboration that is wonderful.
Sometimes a story idea will come to me, and suddenly I've figured out the whole thing, and I feel like I'm collaborating with something other than myself.
I enjoy collaborating with other people.
