Quotes About Creative

Nobody tells people who are beginners - and I really wish somebody had told this to me - that all of us who do creative work... get into it because we have good taste.

To do six to 10 episodes of high-quality writing, and then be able to go direct my own things, and do a movie, if it comes along, sure. I just want to act and do good work.

As long as I can make lots of money in other businesses, I'll continue to subsidize my own work.

As a musician, my job is incredibly easy, and it's a good one, but I've got to work at it occasionally.

Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn't sustain my interest.

The key relationship for writers in film is producers, because those are the first two people involved and the ones who work on it intensely in a private way without the big machinery of film.

I think I'll continue to work as a solo artist.

Anyone who has the kind of inventive and inspired comic sensibility to be able to do that kind of work must be pretty talented.

I don't typically work that late into the night in a studio, I'm more productive during the day.

I'm really thriving and enjoying being a part of a really vibrant creative team and doing creative work.

You work with what you got.

I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it's a lot of work. It's work to be a star. I don't enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.

I work differently than most people.

I always wanted to have a career that would keep me at home in New York so I can work in the theater all the time and be involved in the creative process from the ground up.

I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.

At this point in my life, I like the security of a job, while still having time for my young son and to pursue other creative work.

It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?

I dont want to work on a musical if Im not the lyricist.

When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a piece of music over the scene, and we both listen to it.

Something that distinguishes my solo work from normal rap production is that it has a lot of melody - it's not just cutting up a song and having someone rap over it.

I don't want to direct music videos at all. Any work I do with a camera I'd like to be for a film.

Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.

A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important as the money, for some people.