Quotes About Creative

I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.

If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.

I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years.

I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do something else.

I am a poet, and I speak poetically.

I like poems that are little games.

I always try to approach a film from the point of view of the director.

I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.

I'm not clever enough or aware enough to make a political movie.

A director in films is closer allied to the writer than anyone else.

If I wanted to make something that actually made a difference roughly in this industry, I would make a documentary. That would be the closest I could come to actually try and make a difference.

I would like to know how to get my name stamped on a coconut so when people come over to my house I can just hand them one with my name on it.

These actors who were in 'Dope' are the actors I want to continue to collaborate and make films with from here on out.

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

Film is a collaborative medium, and I very much enjoy that.

In film, it is always collaborative, and so to me, it doesn't make sense to not be collaborative in one of its most critical arenas - which is the screenplay.

Many of my colleagues and I do films, which push the envelope and try to bring some change.

I'm not afraid of color. I like color.

If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.

I've heard my work called 'bold' and 'graffiti-like,' but for me it is always instinctual. I start with a shape or a colour and go from there.

I think I'm ready to bring my style to a comedic movie as a director.

I'm a creative comedic entertainer who enjoys bringing good content to the world. I'm not Big Shaq - Shaq is his own person.

I'm never one to care too much if my work becomes adapted; I make comic books.

I'm not commercial, I'm not for Special K cereal and I'm not a Wheaties boy; I'm a little bit more avant-garde, a little bit more out there.