collaboration
The sooner you establish a routine, the more smoothly your collaboration will advance.
The Collaborative Habit, written with Jesse Kornbluth (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), 26.
People are people. And people are problems. But—and this is a very big but—people who are practiced in collaboration will do better than those who insist on their individuality.
The Collaborative Habit, written with Jesse Kornbluth (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), 11.
Man is fallible, but maybe men are less so.
The Checklist Manifesto (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2009), 67.
I’d get an idea and wouldn’t know how to make it work, and she’d figure out how to make it work.
describing his wife, in “Toshi Seeger, Wife of Folk-Singing Legend, Dies at 91,” by Douglas Martin, New York Times, July 11, 2013.
Coffee breaks, cab rides, green rooms. Real growth often happens outside of where we intend it to, in the interstitial spaces—what Dr. Seuss calls “the waiting place.” Hans Ulrich Obrist once organized a science and art conference with all of the infrastructure of a conference—the parties, chats, lunches, airport arrivals—but with no actual conference. Apparently it was hugely successful and spawned many ongoing collaborations.
“Incomplete Manifesto for Growth” (1998), more here
They say that I have no hits and I’m difficult to work with, and they say that like it’s a bad thing.
Induction speech, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, originally broadcast on Fuse TV, March 20, 2011.
The only screenplays that aren’t tampered with are the ones that aren’t made. Making a movie is an ensemble act. Writers are not authors out there. And scripts are not books. They’re blueprints. You work with others or you’re gone.
The Paris Review Interviews, vol. I (New York: Picador, 2006), 398.