Quotes About Creative

I am a very impatient director.

Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.

Personally, I think that the story is all-important; everything else comes later. But if there's any other way to ensure the betterment of the film, I always implement it.

Actually the writer is the most important part of the filmmaking process. That's why I never hesitate in giving credit to a writer which I don't think even Hollywood does.

It's hard to be in the limelight and write songs that cater to fans that have expectations of you. We just want to write songs that we love, but all the different people with different ideas coming in make it difficult. We have to ask ourselves if we're writing for the most important people: the fans.

I grew up around really not-normal people. My family is general Hollywood. They're all artists; they're creative people who are advocates for expressing themselves. But I also have to say I'm not impressed with Hollywood.

I've always wanted to make an improv movie because I have so much experience in it.

I spent a lot of time in Chicago at a place called The Annoyance Theater, where we would develop one-act plays through improv, and you would just improvise scenes and then discover something about the character and use it in the next scene.

Often, I hear my ideas are more incomprehensible than not.

The best voice actors all have a live performance background. And are competent, fearless, incredibly creative actors.

Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered.

We probably do not have a large enough industry here to ably support the independent filmmaker to move in and out. Much of the industry is based on full-time jobs here, institutionalised jobs.

It's nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been.

This fall I'm doing something I've never done before. I'm starring in a film, an independent film.

I'd like to do an independent film.

It's just hard to get an independent film made.

I came out of independent film, that's my roots.

I've directed independent film.

I might do my own independent film, that my husband wrote for me, if all the ducks are in a row.

I'm always looking for interesting stories, and I feel in independent film there's more opportunity.

Making an independent film is so different.

I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films.

I drop free music because I want people to know I'm still working. I want people to know I'm working and making my money independently. I don't want to charge for a mixtape; I'd rather charge for an album and really give something to my fans.

As science integrates the in-depth knowledge of the physical world accumulated over the past three centuries, it will be channeled into a new and exciting line of inquiry that acknowledges the expanded reality of consciousness as a creative force in the universe and the spiritual creative power embodied in our own minds.