Quotes About Creative

Let me finish my music, and let me present it the way I want to present it. And then share it, put it online, do whatever you want to do after that.

It's very nourishing and collaborative - kind of the true essence of what one would want an artistic collaboration to be [the collaboration with Oprah Winfrey].

I've always just shown up to set and said the lines, [but] I want to help develop scripts and help cast and help bring a visual tone to something.

Independent films now, they want to give you $2 million to make it, 21 days to shoot it and they want 10 movie stars in it.

I am happy doing standup so I don't ever want to stop doing it. But I wouldn't mind venturing off and doing other things that are creative.

I know it's a lot of fun for you guys to write a lot of wacky things. Go ahead, if you want to. Get creative. But don't look too much into it.

Very often on films, even without a producer credit, I'll be involved, very early on. I want to be there as the thing is taking shape.

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

My ultimate goal is actually to direct and develop projects. I don't want them to be big projects with a lot of special effects because that's not really what appeals to me.

I think a good director can embrace any genre and it's the kind of thing where you always want to do something different. You always want to challenge yourself.

It was a relief to be able to do my own band, because I was very responsible for all this amazing music I didn't want to mess up before.

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.

Yet this tough, pragmatic man with his finely tuned sense of justice and honor also had a huge, vulnerable heart and respect for the creative spirit that verged on the awestruck.

I'm a peripheral visionary.

This web of life, the most complex system we know of in the universe, breaks no law of physics, yet is partially lawless, ceaselessly creative.

Being open to change, asking questions, being rebellious, being creative—that is how a civilization grows and becomes like a huge banyan tree—giving shelter and shade to many people of many regions, languages, religions and gender.

Writing for a soap - writing for 25 characters day in, day out - is one of the most difficult jobs in Hollywood.

I've had a couple of storylines in the past that have never been done by a soap before, which is nice.

Soccer's not a game that you can restrict players, especially creative players and players who have proven themselves at that level.

A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

When I was very young, I sold the rights to my work... through 2000.

I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters.