Quotes About Creative

When I work, I think mainly in terms of dramatic choices.

I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.

Most of my work has been independent movies outside the mainstream system.

I sort of straddle the line... between personal movies and mainstream Hollywood.

Maybe I should be making more mainstream films if I want to get some money.

If I weren't a film maker, I'd probably be a handyman.

I've always been interested in making movies.

Making movies seemed so impossible as far as getting my ideas funded.

I am extremely malleable as an actor, but I also know how to get away with doing things the way I want, even if the director disagrees.

I want to be able to manipulate and control my career from the creative side.

I thought that marketing was a way to be creative in business but quickly learned all creative stuff happens at the ad agency.

Lass, it still seems impossible. To alter a universe's whole operating system just by sayin' you want to—" "But Mt'gm'ry, there was at least one person I know of on your planet who used to do such things rather routinely. He codified one of the basic rules for the art: 'Ask, and it shall be given unto you.' An inspired creative physicist, way ahead of his time.

American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

I'm a song writer, professional dreamer...

To infuse a novel with a significance that speaks to many requires, paradoxically, that you ignore what the public wants and focus instead on what matters to you.

You're a natural at this kind of disorganized, illogical project.

In a certain sense it was simply play-acting but at Hampden, where creative expression was valued above all else, play-acting was itself a kind of work, and people went about their grief as seriously as small children will sometimes play quite grimly and without pleasure in make-believe offices and stores.

Today, Passover is a festival of freedom....Passover remains relevant and contemporary, while at the same time a ritual several thousand years old.... The content—at least some of it—is flexible and determined by the participants at specific celebrations. Thus, the holy day is still meaningful to younger generations, because it allows for creative input and participation. It breathes.

Every time I copy something, I can draw it for the rest of my life. But research is so painful - I mean just opening up a magazine looking for a picture of a car or looking out the window looking for a car is just hard!

Thought allied fearlessly to purpose becomes creative force.

You are the thinker of your thoughts and as such you are the maker of yourself and condition. Thought is causal and creative, and appears in your character and life in the form of results. There are no accidents in your life. Both its harmonies and antagonisms are the responsive chords of your thoughts. A man thinks, and his life appears.

You are not separate from the power of infinite well-being. You are not separate from the power of creative Life force. You are not separate from the universal power of All That Is. That power is your power, because that power is You. And your power, like the divine laws by which it is governed, is absolute.

Do not tell me to be realistic. I am used to being unrealistic and doing unrealistic things, that's what makes me above average person at all time.

In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, halting, but effective, toward bringing that power under human control. The challenge may be our salvation. As we begin to master the destructive potentialities of modern science, we move toward a new era in which science can fulfill its creative promise and help bring into existence the happiest society the world has ever known.