Quotes About Creative

As I was writing 'Insidious 3' I started to fall in love with the characters and the story. I became very possessive of it and I didn't want someone else to do it.

I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really. And I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.

I've got dreams now of reinventing 'Hellraiser' and just getting my head on anything I can get my hands on that maybe I would love. 'Cause the possibilities are endless: I can make my own movies; I can make other people's movies. But if someone had a 'Hellraiser' script and had funding, and I loved it, let's go.

The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they're artistic or understand the point of the material, not just because they fit a certain bill aesthetically.

I try to listen to a lot of music when I'm in the mixing process of a record, when I'm in post-production and trying to get everything to sound a certain way.

Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.

I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid.

Writing a script consumes so much of time.

As an actor, my desire was always to be different, there was a desire to associate yourself with projects that bring about the contemporary situation.

I started writing songs for youth theater and stuff, and so it's really writing music for the stage that started me out, but then I eventually went to music college and did a two-year course in contemporary music and then just played in endless bands, cover bands, jazz bands.

The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers.

I knew I wanted to be a fashion writer but didn't want to contribute to the over-saturated market unless I could contribute in a meaningful way.

I'm so independent in writing stuff and controlling what I do. Sometimes I get calls from people asking to be in their movie, but I'm always writing or editing, and I can never get around to doing it. I'm so much more interested in my own stuff. I think I drive my agent crazy.

I love pop, but with an edge so that's what I'd say my music is. And quite controversial.

I don't want to go with conventional thinking.

I'm a great cook. People have asked me to do a cookbook.

One of the coolest things Twickenham Fest does is to commission new works.

I'm not a big believer in our copyright laws; I find them way too restrictive.

Our hair and makeup team at 'This Is Us' had made me a mohawk to wear. I couldn't apply it correctly.

I've been an entrepreneur, a writer, a food correspondent. I might have been an architect - but I'm bad at maths.

I grew up doing a lot of theater - acting and making sets and costumes.

I'm doing a couple books at Dynamite. I'm writing Doc Savage over there.

You should not do everything in your power to make reviewers cranky before - right before they see your movie.

I want people to know that I'm not just this crazy person flailing around. A lot of thought goes into what I do.