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Quotes About Creative

I always believe that a good story will find its audience and that it will attract different kinds of elements of creative people who will make it more compelling.
~ Marc Platt
The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
While every aristocratic morality springs from a triumphant affirmation of its own demands, the slave morality says no from the very outset to what is outside itself, different from itself, and not itself: and this no is its creative deed.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Where one did not suffer with day to day problems because they were solved before hand in ones imagination.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Seasonality in winter doesn't have to mean sleep-inducing, stew-like, starchy casseroles.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
Frank Sobotka in 'The Wire' on HBO was one of the greatest characters I've ever played. They cut his throat at the end of that season. There's something about creative coupling that seems to go with great characters, and the fact that you can never play them again once you're done.
~ Chris Bauer
I am not very regimented unless I have to be. I wish I was someone that could just write every day, but I tend to work on specific projects for a specific period of time and then stop.
~ Adam Schlesinger
It's kind of an intuitive process. I wish that it were more systematic, but it just isn't.
~ David Milch
Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through.
~ James Wolcott
There is something reassuring about British-made products and their inventiveness and ingenuity, their creative spirit and eccentricity and their British wit and charm.
~ David Linley
A producer is supposed to generate an idea for a movie. And then they're supposed to create the team, the group of people that are gonna make this movie. And within that team, the producer has to have a creative vision and a fiscal vision, and they have to adhere to both things.
~ Brian Grazer
A lot of comics fly by the seat of their pants, and they pride themselves on being witty, quick, and off-the-cuff. That's not my show. I wrote a show, and I want to do the show I wrote. I'm not interested in what the audience has to say.
~ Retta
With a strong foundation in scripted programming firmly established by 'Army Wives' and 'Drop Dead Diva,' Lifetime is aggressively expanding its drama series development plate with powerful programs from creative auspices who have strong pedigrees in producing stand-out programming.
~ Nancy Dubuc
There's a point with every record we've made that the album starts to assert its identity, and I think that's kind of what happened with 'The Wolf.'
~ Ted Dwane
Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.
~ Rumi
There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
~ Felicia Day
I've always been attracted to themes of isolation in my work - in my independent work and my DC work.
~ Jeff Lemire
In documentary, you are sometimes burdened, or you feel very responsible for dealing with - I want to say - more complicated themes. Fiction allows for greater distillation.
~ Debra Granik
My task is to tell a story with the music. I always like to have themes in terms of characters or plots, and things that can tell a story always interest me the most.
~ Ramin Djawadi
Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in my head. But with every idea I have, I already foresee the wrong novels I would write, because I also have critical ideas in my head; I've got a full theory of the perfect novel, and that's what stumps me.
~ Italo Calvino
I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.
~ Preston Sturges
I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.
~ Charlie Kaufman
I find cooking very therapeutic. As a creative person, I relish cooking because it's such a creative process. You can cook anything out of anything.
~ Shilpa Shetty
My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.
~ Iman