Quotes About Inspiration

It wasn't a conscious decision to be bold or anything. It all depends on how different artists envision me.

As film makers or any artiste that put work out there, what you are doing on your level is that you are putting consciousness out into the world.

There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall.

Art is meant to bring people together. It's meant to raise consciousness.

As soon as I finish meditating, I get a beautiful feeling of expanded consciousness. When I'm in this headspace I can make so much progress in my writing.

Political consequences have never really come into my thinking. I didn't think about it when we made 'Maurice' or when I said first I would co-direct and then write the screenplay of 'Call Me'. I was just making something I thought I would enjoy creating.

I think it's always great to not be the smartest person in the room because I don't want to ever feel like I can't improve upon what I'm doing. I just want to surround myself with people that are better actors than me and better singers and dancers and see what happens.

We live in a world where it's difficult to be a woman who is strong and confident, so I like to surround myself with friends that embody that same principle and idea.

The smartest thing a director can do is surround himself with really good people.

I like to surround myself with people that have dreams and that fight for them every day.

The people that I surround myself with now and my family, they are the key to my success.

I'm proud of the fact I was able to surround myself with great people who did great things, and it resulted in the Bulls being a global brand and winning championships and a factor in the community.

I've said this before, but after 'That '70s Show' ended, I solely wanted do films that inspire me, and to work with people who make me better. I wanted to just surround myself with people who I think are better than I am, whether they're actors or directors or producers, so that I could learn from them.

My style is part of the music I like, the bands I see, the people I surround myself with, the places I go to.

'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with.

I try to surround myself with the people who genuinely believe in changing things, that are angry about it and want to make changes and want to make a change and are willing.

I never studied interior design, but I'm a creative person. And what we surround ourselves with is very important - what makes you feel happy, what makes your senses feel good.

I like to create a simple space and surround myself with things that I like to look at.

I pay a lot of attention to the people I let surround me. I learn something from those people and from everyone - from other musicians, from people on the street.

I surround myself with fantastical things because it makes it a little easier to write fantastical stories.

I surround myself with great people. I listen to what they have to say. But at the end of the day, I rely on my gut.

I surround myself with incredible, capable people, and the beautiful part about the artists I've chosen to work with, and the artists that have chosen to work with me, is that we share the same family values.