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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Recognize and respect mutual self-interests, then build creative collaborations to serve them.
Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.
I love the idea of creative collaboration. I love the idea of exploring marriages, particularly ones that are in process for a long time.
What happens is that the experience of writers working together and the idea of creative collaboration is so delightful, but it has been relegated to TV.
In East of Eden, John Steinbeck wrote that there's never been a great creative collaboration. When the Beatles first burst on the scene, I thought they were proving him wrong. Later, we learned that Lennon and McCartney had each composed their pop masterpieces separately, individually. So it goes.
The organizations of the future will increasingly depend on the creativity of their members to survive. Great Groups offer a new model in which the leader is an equal among Titans. In a truly creative collaboration, work is pleasure, and the only rules and procedures are those that advance the common cause.
The relationship with actor and director is probably closer to theater, in that, when we record the dialogue, there is very little in the way of the creative collaboration - no cameras, lighting or even locations. Then, once we record, the post process is very similar to the post flow in filmmaking - editing, sound design, mixing, etc. At the end of the day, it's all about storytelling and honing in on a tone by developing a rhythm and structure that suits the storytelling.