Top 122 Collaborative Quotes

Before Google, I spent the summer building a program that would look at what websites you would go to and what websites other people would go to – and built a collaborative filtering program that helped you find related sites to look at.
Marissa Mayer
Texting isn’t writing. It’s not like letter writing. Texting is short scriptwriting. It’s a collaborative soap opera where nothing happens.
A. A. Gill
The Learning Hub is a collection of handmade concrete towers surrounding a central space that brings everyone together, interspersed with nooks, balconies and gardens for informal collaborative learning.
Thomas Heatherwick
I’d like to make an album with Slack one day. I’d like to use it as a collaborative tool. I know about it because I have friends that work in tech, and I guess you can use it in any job.
Rostam Batmanglij
I love the collaborative process. Getting to meet new people and really building something with them is such a wonderful way to get to know someone.
Phillipa Soo
There are films that look very interesting when on paper, but things change while shooting. At times, things changed during post-production, and I see no reason to blame anything on anyone. It is a collaborative effort. If it failed, we should face it.
Kartik Aaryan
When you’re doing collaborative music, the relationship that forms is a very bonding kind of experience.
Condoleezza Rice
Musicals are very collaborative. Unless you find somebody who wants to do something with you and has equal commitment, it’s not going to work.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
You know, it takes a while to get used to – it’s a whole group of people with all these ideas and after you sort of navigate your way through the first few episodes it becomes collaborative and creative.
Josh Duhamel
I have found that women are really in their element in a very collaborative approach.
Lynne Doughtie
I love working with Prada, I would do it all the time if I could. Working with them is like working on a film: it is very collaborative.
Mia Goth
I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a

I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I’ve had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.
Alan Parker
My collaborative albums are always way more enjoyable to make.
Aesop Rock
I will write a verse or a story and bring it into a songwriting session, because that’s what’s big in Nashville – the collaborative part of songwriting.
Jacob Whitesides
Two people making a beat is really like one person making a beat. But you have another person’s brain. So what might sound good to you, they could flip it a different way. It’s really a collaborative effort, really.
Metro Boomin
Making a television show is a difficult, collaborative, creative endeavor, and it really requires everybody to band together and all work together every day.
Peter Krause
Some Western states have collaborative water agreements with Indian tribes – Washington state, for instance, monitors a number of its rivers to protect spawning salmon, which are promised to native peoples under 19th-century treaties.
Charles C. Mann
The companies we admire are like the people we admire: resilient, authentic, personable, collaborative, ambitious, and humble.
Chip Conley
I’m really interested in the collaborative thing. It’s what makes it scary because you never know what it’s going to end up like. But you hope. You put yourself in the hands of the best people you can find, and you’re completely dependent on the kindness of strangers and their commitment. It’s like this mutual delusion.
Meryl Streep
The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.
Beth Henley
I love leaving the door open to good ideas. I love the collaborative swirl. I get charged by problem-solving, usually under some kind of stress – the sun is going down, and we have eight minutes, and we have to solve it. Great things come out of it.
Ron Howard
We stayed there 24 hours a day. We lived and ate and slept that movie. We were enthusiastic, not just because of the movie, but because we had such a great collaborative team. We had a really good time. It was very much a family.
John Dykstra
Nelson McCormack on ‘Killing Kennedy’ was really terrific because I wrote the script, and he had some terrific ideas. We went over the script together, and I was with him on set. So it was a collaborative effort.
Kelly Masterson
That’s something I like about drag – I get to do everything. Collaborative arts are hard for me because I don’t really like to relinquish control.
Trixie Mattel
I have an amazing collaborative relationship with Albert Sanchez and Pedro Zalba. They always understand my vision and also have their own references to bring to the table, the results are always incredible.
Violet Chachki
For me, you have to do as much work as you can beforehand and, once you get on stage or set, throw it out the window because you need to be collaborative. You shouldn’t have too many ideas about where it goes before you get into the room with the director and other actors.
Brian Gleeson
I have long believed these types of collaborative agreements are a far better approach to federal land management than the contentious battles that too often sidetrack proper resource management.
Mike Simpson
The great thing about games is that it’s tremendously collaborative, and it opens you up to this other world of thinking and storytelling and how you construct those stories.
Bruce Feirstein
Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with.
Sean Durkin
And ‘Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll’ was a very transitional film for me in that I was one of the producers and you know, came up with the idea with the writer and the producer, as well. But, it was a very collaborative event. You know, I really love working in that way.
Andy Serkis
I mainly try to foster long-term collaborative relationships.
Finneas
You know, TV, by nature is a collaborative process.
Margaret Brennan
I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I’ve actually been painting longer than I’ve been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.
James Franco
I liked the idea of exposing the beams in collaborative novel. And there are many – especially in the crime world – there are many people working together: James Patterson and his stable of sub authors; and then there are like Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman and Jason Starr.
Lisa Lutz
Mike Schur knows exactly what everything should look like but, at the same time, is super collaborative and loves working with actors that make choices and bring stuff to the table.
D’Arcy Carden
When Spotify launched in the U.S. in 2011, it relied on simple usage-based algorithms to connect users and music, a process known as ‘collaborative filtering.’ These algorithms were more often annoying than useful.
John Seabrook
Through Common Goal, we’re creating a collaborative way for football to give back to society.
Juan Mata
Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can’t resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
Hanna Rosin
In all the stuff I do, I really like it most when I’m being creative and collaborative, working with people who have my kind of energy around me.
Trudie Styler
I don’t have an overabundance of cocky attitude, because I’m collaborative.
Brian France
I think women bring a different perspective and that we tend to be more collaborative in our approach. I served in the Iowa Senate back in the ’90s, when there weren’t a lot of us. At the time, I think there were five or six women, and two or three of them were Republicans and two or three were Democrats.
Patty Judge
I’ve actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently. Most of it is because in my band, Incubus, it is very much a collaborative effort. I do what I do in the band, and everyone plays their respective parts, but in the end, we are sort of a democratic process.
Brandon Boyd
I crave the variety, I really do. I'd probably say stan

I crave the variety, I really do. I’d probably say standup as I think that’s what I do best, if I may say so. But it can be a really self-absorbed, obsessive way to live your life, whereas doing theatre is very collaborative and creative and intense, I’d hate to miss out on that.
Ardal O’Hanlon
But I’m pretty good with collaborative thinking. I work well with other people.
David Bowie
You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don’t work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won’t work.
Eddie Murphy
What I’ve learned in my career as an actor is that you’re only as good as your collaborators. The process is many things, but it is wholly collaborative, particularly with something like ‘Westworld,’ which is a 10-episode-per-season gig, and we’re just now on the 7th episode.
Jeffrey Wright
I campaigned on being a collaborative leader.
Bill Flores
I want to be so giving and collaborative, but my best songs were written on my own.
Linda Perry
I’m taking a lot of my favorite artists, different people, my favorite music and marrying that with what I do as a comic. It’s very collaborative, arty, fun and cool.
Margaret Cho
I think good actors – good, collaborative actors who see themselves as leaders in a given production – can and should offer ideas that have nothing to do with wanting to direct themselves.
Joe Mantello
There is something about me that is collaborative, that wants to get the best performance out of somebody else or to hear something that somebody else has done that’s good and to try and make it great.
Ryan Lewis
Part of doing mash-ups is getting the legal rights to use the songs. If you’re going to do a mash-up with five songs, you should probably find 10 songs, because you’re only going to get half of them cleared. It’s a real collaborative effort.
Harvey Mason, Jr.