Quotes About Creative

As long as we, again, kind of keep earning the sequels with material and I'm confident Mike can, I'm in. You know I always want to do those. But I also want to keep going in some of the direction as Meet the Parents has.

Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list.

Millennials, as others, want creative, durable, desirable, and beautiful products. But they do add a new criteria: respect.

Design is a series of creative choices - it's a collaborative effort, an evolutionary process. You choose your fabrics depending upon what you want to say, then you work with mills to get those fabrics. Through the process, you realize what you want it to be.

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

Until technologists learn reverence for the earth, there will be no possibility of bringing a healing or a new creative age to the earth.

We humbly beg your kind applause," murmured Mary Brenham, with a creative frown that reminded Ralph of Betsey Alicia and made him sharply aware there was nothing that moved him like a cloud of intellection on a desired face.

There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves a force which really changes our lives from within. And yet the same instinct tells us that this change is a recovery of that which is deepest, most original, most personal in ourselves. To be born again is not to become somebody else, but to become ourselves.

If taken at face value, the miraculous explanation would tell us that science is not worth the trouble, that it will never yield the answers we seek, and that nature will forever be beyond all human understanding. Sterile and nonproductive in its consequences, the claim of miracle would put a lid on curiosity, experimentation, and the human creative imagination.

Down with advertising that forgets to promise the consumer any benefit. Down with creative show-offs. Too clever by half. If you spend your advertising budget entertaining the consumer, you are a bloody fool. Housewives don't buy a new detergent because the manufacturer told a joke on television last night. They buy it because it promised a benefit. If I could persuade the lunatics to give up their pursuit of awards, I would die happy.

Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.

Wherever the creative power of desire is, there springs the soil's own seed. But do not forget to wait.

Every creative person is a duality or a synthesis of contradictory aptitudes. On the one side he is a human being with a personal life, while on the other side he is an impersonal, creative process.

What separates design from art is that design is meant to be... functional .

Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.

If it was not a good idea, it was at least an interesting one.

Evangelical theology is heretical if it is only creative and unworthy if it is only repetitious

No matter how exciting, new, original, or creative you personally believe your proposal is, always remember that these can be exactly the characteristics people translate to mean risk and unpredictability. Emphasize your proposal's attributes that meet personal needs, not those characteristics that emphasize change and unpredictability.

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

We have got amazing filmmakers in New Zealand with amazing stories to tell, and I want to keep being a part of that.

The New Zealand culture and nature is such that we find it very difficult to celebrate creative achievement. In order to get New Zealanders' respect you have to dominate the world like Peter Jackson has done. He is absolutely revered.

It is a very frustrating thing to be the face of a creative project and yet essentially have zero creative control over that project. Essentially, you're a pawn in the system.

Those writers that have zero say in their movie adaptations have zero say because they sell it. If you don't sell it, and you do it yourself, and you wait until the screenplay is ready, you don't have to worry about that.