Quotes About Creative

It's funny, because, yes, there's a Marvel aesthetic, and yet no one ever said to me, 'we have to do a Marvel aesthetic.' So it was probably me more self-policing to make sure I was going to stay inside the box a little bit.

The short form, for those people who can master it - and I am by no means one of them - it is very admirable, because it is really hard to tell stories that can stick with the audience and still be between 5 and 30 minutes long. I think it's a real challenge.

When youth live in fear of becoming who they are, as adults, they can't become the creative beings that we are meant to be on this planet.

Films are a director's medium. We're all stemming from the director.

Television has always been an appealing medium for writers to work in.

My number-one hero in terms of interdisciplinary art is Laurie Anderson, but I've always admired anyone who can think way beyond any one medium.

I'm a resourceful guy!

My work is not great, but it's respectable.

Our art, in a sense, is quite revolutionary.

I love acting, but music is so much more rewarding because it's more personal.

I know what I do for a living is ridiculous.

I've actually done bands where it was my band and it was never fun and it wasn't the right place for me and, whatever, it felt weird.

Rob Zemeckis is an incredible director.

I tried writing adult romances, but it just didn't fit my voice.

There's a burgeoning film scene in Romania.

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.

I'm doing a record that has a story that runs through all of the songs, and then there is also a film that goes along with it.

Often if a picture is in trouble one way or another, there are ways to salvage it, through reshoots or whatever.

It is extremely satisfying when you finish a script, but the process of it can be just nerve-wracking.

I feel like every time I do a video I say I want to make it like a movie, I want to make it very entertaining. So I start to just scan in my brain for what I haven't done before so I can do something unique and ridiculous, and what that song means.

Take these actors who adhere to a rigid schedule. They will say they are going to do two pictures a year or three or one. Now any actor who does that is in business, not in art.

Sci-fi fans are eccentric.

You can get away with a lot more in a film or television score. It is contextual.

It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think.