Quotes About Creative

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

The independent film business is pretty much gone. Now you can do it in a format where you actually get to develop a character over a period of time.

I've been an amature inventor for a long time.

I'm reading Joe Eszterhas biography; it's fabulous. Every time he made a movie, he fought with the director or the producer over the ending.

It takes so long to put a movie into production and finish it that anyone with a bad idea has time to give it to you before the movie is completed.

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.

Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.

With two kids it's hard to find down time to write so I often write during their nap time.

The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.

I really felt neurotic - it was a neurotic reason - but I had to teach very, very well. That sucked up a lot of oxygen from my time and my creative thinking.

Yes. I am writing full-time. Which is strange. It feels like not having a job.

You should spend more time with your families; write that novel you've always wanted to write. You know, the one about the fearless reporter who stands up to the administration. You know - fiction.

The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.

I wanted to write a balls-to-the-wall supernatural horror story, something I haven't done in a long time.

I've been involved in burlesque for a really long time and I've always been really interested in burlesque, and I was writing musicals for different studios.

[Valley of Violence] was written for James Ransone. PJ's a friend of mine, I've known him for a long time, he's always like, "Dude, when are we going to make a movie together?" I finally called him.

[Television] is a great medium for writers, because there's just no time for a studio to interfere very long. You write it, you shoot it; it's on TV.

We all have firm favourites we bring out at a dinner parties, but it's nice to try something a bit more edgy, or more time-consuming.

The overall concept comes first and then that informs the product, the shoot and how we communicate it. Everything comes back to the concept. It all gets thought about at the same time.

I started writing stories in my spare time.

Having animation as this time-based medium made a lot of sense for me, and then stop motion was even more fun because it was so hands-on and physical in a way that I really liked.

I paint - I tend more to abstraction - but not as much as I would like to because of time. I would love to do sculpture - I've toyed with the idea of fitting in a sculpture course.

I think that's part of the fun of being an actor - you get to not be normal all of the time.

I am free when I am functioning here in time and space as the creative will. ... freedom by our definition is obedience to the law of one's nature.