Quotes About Creative

I'm not an easy one when it comes to nostalgia - as long as I've got a new idea I'll always think that this is the best song we've ever written and all that.

To put it simply, I'm not interested in making comfortable films, and I don't want to crush the audience's imagination. I want them to feel like they might have missed something.

'Portlandia' is 100 percent improvised, and I came into this business not knowing anything.

I've had situations before where there are more people giving notes than there are writers on the show.

A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt.

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that taught me I would never be a novelist. I discovered I had no imagination. My short stories were always thinly veiled memoir.

I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels.

I've always been ambidextrous, writing short stories and novels, and I pretty much have been writing a novel and a handful of short stories every year since '91.

I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.

I'm not really a professional composer; I just compose now and then when someone asks me to.

With my work, it's not possible to just cast a production and leave it. I have to nurture the group of dancers to make it happen.

I just want to entertain; that is my main objective and what comes before everything else.

I'm never going to be inspired by some obscure film, which isn't to say I don't enjoy that sort of thing. I just want to share my work with everyone.

I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.

I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.

The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.

Occasionally, we would shoot something and think, 'This is it; we are over the line.' But the test audiences didn't have a problem with it.

Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.

Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.

A man who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes his work with the assurance of success magnetizes his condition. He draws to himself the creative powers of the universe.

When I write I like to give equal justice to lyrics, too. I want the song to have meaning for me so I can make it have meaning for the audience.