Quotes About Creative

Writing a TV show is totally different than writing features, or just, what I started doing is writing features. You write a little bit more organically. You start from the beginning to the end, beginning, middle and end.

I essentially have always directed everything on my TV show without using that title; I edited and wrote all my stuff.

When I was making short films for the TV show 'Naalaya Iyakunar,' I wasn't just competing but making films that I could potentially show at international festivals.

When I got to high school, they had a morning TV show you could become a part of, and I started making short films for that, most little satirical, laugh-y films about the dean of students being chased by a dinosaur or something like that. And I really just enjoyed it.

So often in TV you're looking at the monitor thinking, 'Oh, yeah, that sort of looks a bit like that other TV show that we're pretending to make.'

My day job is making TV shows.

If you're a fan of auteur filmmaking, I'd say get yourself invested in some really good TV shows.

'The Fourth Hand' was a novel that came from twenty years of screenwriting concurrently with whatever novel I'm writing.

My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.

After about twenty issues of Josie, they decided to pay me.

I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.

It's cool if people want to make movies of stuff, but I'm really interested in the comics.

My goals are to continue acting and also to produce some independent films in the next few years. Music is a passion of mine, so I also want to continue along that path, creating with my friends.

When I was working on the music for this I didn't want to just use pop songs as the score - most movies do it and I've done it before.

The deal is that you can do it, you don't really owe me anything, but at the end of it, I own the film. Then I can actually go out and reprint or not reprint if it I want.

House of the Dead 2 I gave away. Alone in the Dark 2 I will also not do; even if the DVD movie made money. BloodRayne 2 in the Wild West is what I really want to do.

There's definitely the desire out there for young people who want to make the movies.

I look for good directors mainly because if you do enough of movies where there's not a real creative vision behind it, you start to turn into a robot and you want to jump off a bridge.

I think film is collaboration, and I always want to hear everyone's input.

I love the creative outlet of designing, and I love make-up and products and feel like I find so many great products around the world that I want to recreate, so I want to do that or design.

Bad guys are so much fun to play because you can go as far and as wacky as you want.

If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist except he was a Realist.

When you're shooting 20-odd episodes in a season, the last thing you want is for each script to be the same tone.

I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.