The audience is your first collaborator with the material. If that makes sense.
I'm not a great collaborator, to tell the truth.
I'm a music storyteller and collaborator. I hear character, location, and story as music. For me a score is there to both heighten the story and to actually tell the story with the unique emotional and narrative powers of music.
If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.
A very good editor is almost a collaborator.
Some audiences might find homosexuality an uncomfortable subject matter, and a character who is a Japanese collaborator is always uncomfortable.
Having seen Justin's work on Bleak House, I knew that he'd be incredibly well prepared and interesting stylistically for this and that was definitely the case. It's very liberating for actors - and I can only speak for myself here - but he creates a very loose environment and he's a great collaborator.
With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn't know who to work with.
I like it when someone tells me: 'I don't agree. ' This is a true collaborator. When they say 'Oh, how great, how great, how great,' that's not useful.
In our world, it's a big deal when you have a favourite collaborator and share them.
I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.
Now you have to be a collaborator and you have to bring on governments and convince people.
The unconscious is our best collaborator.
The best you can hope for is a great collaborator.
Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.
In my own experience, including when I ask for advice, I would ask a collaborator, a friend, I also like to hear the opinion of a woman because they have such wealth. They look at things in a different way.
It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be directed. It's hard for me to shift gears.
The collaborator has to be someone who understands that his role is to help you articulate what you want, but at the same time is not just going to be mechanically obeying, but adding to, supplementing, and coming up with stuff.
I'd probably end up doing the same thing over and over. We're creatures of habit. We know what we know. With collaboration. . . and I'm not just talking about music, I'm talking about in life - if you're a good listener and you have your ears open, and to be a good collaborator you have to be able to listen, you can learn something from somebody else.
It is one of the few elements in the process that a director really, really can't control: an actor's performance. If you have a director that understands that, it's comforting to an actor. You're starting the relationship more as a collaborator, rather than as an employee or some kind of a soldier trying to execute something you don't organically feel.
