Quotes About Inspiration

In the mid-1970s, I was teaching design at the Academy of Applied Arts in Budapest.

And living in Budapest for eight months was incredible.

I am interested in suffering and, in particular, the Buddhist idea that in pain, you can find beauty.

I have to enjoy the music I'm making, so it's also important for me that, if I'm working on a track with someone, I have a good connection with them - which is why I often stick to working with buddies of mine.

Mancini was a big part of my life. I sang a lot of his music, and he became a good buddy.

I never think about the budget of the film.

My dad was a low budget film director. I grew up as a kid making movies, based on the love of seeing what my dad was doing.

I was a big aviation buff as a boy.

I'm a huge film buff. If it wasn't for Martin Scorcese, Shyam Benegal and Govind Nihalani, I wouldn't be here.

I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.

Either you've got the bug, or you haven't. There are many things I'd rather be doing than writing a book.

Music rules a lot of my life - I was bitten by the bug young.

I was going to Hartford High School and when the theater bug hit, it hit hard and it saved my life. It gave me focus, direction and purpose.

The acting bug first bit when I went to see 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead' at the Old Vic.

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

Together with this Brazilian people, we will build a new nation.

I liked being Eddie the Eagle, but I also like being Michael Edwards, plasterer and general builder.

The arts give kids the building blocks with which to then play.

A lot of my building blocks - who I am kind of as an artist - all came from being in L.A.

In 1912, when I was working in The Hague, I first saw a drawing by Louis Sullivan of one of his buildings. It interested me.

I love buildings that aren't purpose-built.

Aerie builds you up, and it makes you feel positive. Why don't more companies do that?

I think the history and the past we have is just an energy we've built up to do what we do now.

Only those who are built up can build others up, amen?