Justin Timberlake: 'Chemistry with Timbaland's like Scorsese, De Niro'

Justin Timberlake has said that a large part of his success is down to who he has worked with.

The former *NSYNC star has since moved into a solo music career as well as one in film, but he admits that he couldn't have done it without his great colleagues.

He told Refinery 29 regarding the key to a long-lasting career: "Collaboration. Sometimes a producer and an artist get together and they make magic, like Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson, and sometimes a director and an actor like Marty Scorsese and Robert De Niro get together and they make magic."

He went on: "I do think a lot of it is about chemistry. I do think movies are a director's medium and music is a producer's medium. You could liken my chemistry with Timbaland to Scorsese and De Niro. I don't want to sound conceited but I do believe that the chemistry is there.

"Every time we get together we make something I've never heard. I think it's always interesting. I'm going to have to pay for that comment. I know somebody's going to have to throw it in my face. Everything we're talking about is collaboration. One person doesn't make a movie great, but a bunch of people can make a movie s**tty."

The 32-year-old, who portrays a university student desperate for cash in latest movie Runner Runner with Ben Affleck, went on to say that they had a lot in common.

He said of the star: "He's one of the biggest movie stars in the world and now one of the top directors in Hollywood. Working with him was a lot of fun and extremely informative.

"I learned a lot. He's very disarming in that sense. I feel like we're kind of the same way in that sense. He's experienced being the biggest movie stars in the world at one time and now to be considered a great filmmaker; it's a whole new career for him."

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