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Quotes About Creative

I think it's important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here is only a tiny slice out of the massive amount of operation that goes on around the world.
~ Mike Leigh
I'm, like, a tiny musical theater fairy.
~ Madeline Brewer
I think films are a really small target. They're really hard to make, and they're a really tiny target.
~ Ol Parker
I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.
~ Lefty Gomez
This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.
~ Robert Wyatt
Early on, I knew I had ideas, but I wasn't sure when it was appropriate to bring them to the table, and I was so intimidated by these titans that I was working for. But it started around the time of 'Tron,' when I was really excited by the creative process and the prep that went into that. I spoke up often at those writing sessions.
~ Olivia Wilde
In Hollywood, 'under development' means 'all I have is the title.'
~ Roger Ebert
Fox was interested in a different title to 'Independence Day.'
~ Bill Pullman
I usually like to introduce the film and the music with the opening titles. It's a great help for a composer to bring the audience into the work that we're going into.
~ Alexandre Desplat
To be honest, I have never had a 9-5 job where I worked for someone else.
~ Mandy Ingber
To be honest, I don't see anyone out there who plays the way I do.
~ Andrea Pirlo
Independent films are the ones with the great possibility of keeping you on your toes, challenging your craft and skills, and forcing you to learn something new.
~ Manoj Bajpayee
Really, I'll go anywhere at any time to continue working in theater - it's a passion that I'm thankful I still have. It keeps me creative and on my toes and meeting great people. I can't imagine a better way of working than on a play.
~ Laurie Metcalf
If making movies was easier, there'd be a lot more good movies. So you kind of learn that if it's just a good script, or if it's just a good producer, that's not always enough. You need an entire team of creative people coming together.
~ Chris Evans
I was focused on building things from an early age. When I was about 3, our toilet broke, and my mother was ready to call the plumber. I told her I would fix it and asked her to get my Richard Scarry book 'How Things Work in Busytown.' Between the picture of a toilet and the text she read to me explaining how the parts worked, I fixed it.
~ Colin Angle
Put the bad poetry in the mouths of outlandish characters. It might make bad poetry funny instead of sad.
~ Sarah Ruhl
Your part is to yield to My creative work in you, neither resisting it nor trying to speed it up.
~ Sarah Young
Through the intimacy of our relationship, you are being transformed from the inside out. As you keep your focus on Me, I form you into the one I desire you to be. Your part is to yield to My creative work in you, neither resisting it nor trying to speed it up. Enjoy the tempo of a God-breathed life by letting Me set the pace. Hold My hand in childlike trust, and the way before you will open up step by step.
~ Sarah Young
Obviously there's not much options when you're a cartoonist - you pretty much either work at home or rent an office I guess, and working at home just seems easier.
~ Scott Adams
Schneider and Mullenweg went to great lengths to keep support roles, like legal, human resources, and even IT, from infringing on the autonomy of creative roles like engineering and design. The most striking expression of this is that management is seen as a support role.
~ Scott Berkun
I need time to develop the idea into a plot before I talk about it.
~ James Thayer
I'm a performer. I've just been one since I was a little girl. I used to pretend all the time.
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
That's a sound design thing but then we wanted to do music that would not disturb it and at the same time drive it.
~ A. R. Rahman
Time to a writer is like play dough in the hands of a toddler.
~ Barry Lane