Quotes About Creative

The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.

Ahana does lots of things; that's the problem with her. She is a fashion designer and is also writing some scripts. She doesn't want to do the regular commercial films. So she has decided that only if she really likes something, then she will take it up.

Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They're almost like tangent lines - those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.

I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.

There's a lot of theaters in New York. You can always go out and be around a lot of like-minded comedians.

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

I was one of the artistic directors of the Steppenwolf Theatre, which me and many dear buddies started all the way back in 1974, and I have a lot of that in my makeup.

On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me.

I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way.

I was always a theatrical kid.

Since we started, Chris and I had theatrical ambitions.

The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.

I started doing radio pieces with no clear, preconceived idea, except that I have a tendency to be theatrical.

I like to drum for various theatrical things.

It is always wonderful to have a theatrical release; lot of filmmakers desire that.

I've always been very thematic with my work, very conceptual.

It might be thematic work. It might be theatrical. I enjoy that kind of work.

When I work on a movie, I look at the script or watch the film, and I talk to my director or producers and make a plan: this is our main character; we need a theme for this plot. We need a love theme.

There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.

The experience of being cared for and made to feel wanted had brought out a creative growth in their response to life and other people. Being loved had re-established their own capacity for loving.

Just as the poet is a menace to conformity, he is also a constant threat to political dictators. He is always on the verge of blowing up the assembly line of political power.