Quotes About Inspiration

I just love the comics industry.

I knew I wanted to do comics, but I wasn't sure what they were about or what I wanted them to be about.

I didn't get into comics until college, and it was sort of an accident.

Everything that I am going to do as an actress doesn't matter where it's coming from. It just has to be interesting.

Writing 'Dog Stars' was coming home. My spirit just sang. It's what I wanted to do my whole life.

You can't command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves.

What I love about research is when I'm having a bad day and I can't write, I'll just research some more, I'll learn some more and I'll have better command of the world of the film.

I think Gadi Eizenkot is a very good commander.

Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys that do. I've done it. But I also think that you can pick great songs outside that you didn't write that can help your career.

When I first made some comment when we launched that part of our purpose was to do stuff that has social ripples, lots of people said it was such a glib thing to say. I actually believe that.

I think art always comments on the time and place it was created.

That's my achievement actually - when a mother says that she didn't marry off her 14-year-old daughter because of me, or when a woman tells me that she continued to study after watching my dramas - those comments mean a lot.

I don't think anything that I have done has been forced by commerce exclusively.

Commerce is in no one's hand and that should not be the only reason to make a film ever.

I never really think so much about commercial success; I usually just think about records that move me, and 'Baby Got Back' was one that moved me.

I was almost 8 years old when I was watching a kid on a TV commercial, and I told my mom that I wanted to do the same thing. She said that I would need to get an agent and that she would research it.

You need to come up with a reason to make a movie, separate from the commercial side.

My goals aren't really commercial success.

I used to want to write commercials as a kid.

I learned about making films by going into advertising, making commercials.

When you're growing up you always like the commercials of the guys on the screen that you like watching.

Shaking the commissioner's hand has always been a big thing for me. When you're young and you watch the draft every year, you're like, 'That's going to be me one day.'

Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing.

I started writing songs later in life because I just couldn't commit to it before.