Quotes About Inspiration

There's nothing like taking Proust to the beach and daydreaming along to it.

It's nice to film in somewhere that you actually love being. Usually, you're in a studio for months on end, and you never see any daylight, so you really make the most of it.

I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour.

I've wanted to be in daytime television for a long time, because that's where you can convey a message.

I love daytime television.

I work at night, starting at around 10 o'clock and working until 2 or 3 in the morning. I do that usually five days a week. In Berkeley, I have an office behind our house that I share with my wife, who works more in the daytime.

For me personally, and I'm sure not everyone is like this. But for me I find it difficult to choreograph in the daytime.

I want to be an Asian Robert De Niro.

I think if I had a choice, I'd like to be in a film with De Niro.

Growing up, I always looked up to males or comedians such as Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro. I also love Lucille Ball, from the show 'I Love Lucy.'

Robert De Niro... I had a chance to meet him, and I hope to get to work with him one day.

I wanted to be Dustin Hoffman or Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I thought I was going to be a dramatic actor, but comedy sort of started out first, and I was like, 'Maybe I'll find some more drama later on in my career.'

I really like Robert De Niro.

Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive.

Buckeye born and bred. Now an H-O-F-er - even after I'm dead.

Some songs are dead easy, and others can be quite challenging. Other times, you just have to put it in the bin.

The best thing for my creative process is a deadline.

I write because it feels good, and I don't have a deadline, and I don't have people telling me what they want me to write. Maybe if I did, I wouldn't be very good at it.

'Senna' took five years, 'Amy' took three years. You try and say, 'Look, there's no deadline.' That's important. Just saying, 'We've got to make the film. And once the film's ready, it will be out there.'

Usually composers need a reason to write. I need a deadline.

It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a book wants to take longer, it can.

I may not want to write every day, but I have no choice - there are deadlines to meet.

Personally I find that deadlines are the best inspiration.

When I was 11, I knew that I wanted to write a kid's book and tell the world what it was like being deaf.