Often, I'll ask clients who've found a great contracting relationship how they did so. The answer is almost always that they heard about them through a friend or colleague.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.
My hope always when I am working with a new client is that I will cultivate a relationship with them: develop a dialogue and a way of working. This makes it easy for a star to trust you.
Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.
I've never believed in tying myself up in a long-range contract, and I've been very outspoken on that subject.
The relationship between a client must be 'we.'
I always have a contract with a character. Even when he's unappealing. The contract is to give him his due. To tell his story. And to keep his secrets.
I want my clients to trust me.
I've been offered a few professional contracts... in the hundreds and thousands.
Treat your customers like lifetime partners.
We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You can actually figure out before you work on something how much blood you will have to let emotionally.