Quotes About Creative

I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different element of that storytelling process.

I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.

I want to do more audio originals because I think that it is a fascinating medium. If you think about it, this is original storytelling.

I always did go against the singer-songwriter form. I think I've always had a lot of storytelling songs.

I believe monthly comics and the extended miniseries are the true hallmarks of comic art and storytelling.

Mind you, as a little boy, I always had other interests from most kids. I was not a boy who rubbed around baseball bats. I always had the storytelling instinct, even as a child. I was a very imaginative little boy.

I'm a huge fan of Netflix and its storytelling and couldn't be more excited to make my debut with such a strong creative partner.

My career as an author began as I saw it as a natural progression from music, as both music and books are a method of storytelling.

I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore.

I was a very strange child.

When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot. It's strange: people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can't even answer it. I don't keep regular hours.

I was always told that I was too strange or that I was too cheesy by different groups of people, like the record companies said I was way too weird and the indie people wouldn't even let me in their band.

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

I'm really interested in the collaborative thing. It's what makes it scary because you never know what it's going to end up like. But you hope. You put yourself in the hands of the best people you can find, and you're completely dependent on the kindness of strangers and their commitment. It's like this mutual delusion.

When I first found out what a show runner was, I thought it was the strangest job I had heard of in my life.

In California, you want to have the strangest thing, be doing the strangest thing. People admire that.

In general, though, one should never forget the role money plays in shaping the writer's life, and the life inevitably informs the work. My own position is that I always want to convince a publisher to give me adequate money for what I want to do. At the same time, what I want to do is to arrive at full expression in a way that seduces, that pleases people in a way they didn't expect to be pleased, or even want to be pleased.

I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

My advice is to choose a profession that is really easy for you to do and that also allows you to be creative.

Fascists despised the small truths of daily existence, loved slogans that resonated like a new religion, and preferred creative myths to history or journalism.

Indeed, it is precisely because social reproduction scholars have so effectively applied and extended its theoretical insights to a diverse set of concerns in such creative ways that it is useful to compile and outline its key theoretical components along with its most significant historical applications.

I always liked music that was melodic, but that had something a bit more wonky and odd going on too.

Before me, there was no offbeat flow.