Quotes About Inspiration

I fell in love with Nashville. I got lots of work.

Meaningful work is within your grasp.

I've discovered that my best work comes from the uncomfortable but fruitful feeling of not having a clue – of being worried, secretly afraid, even convinced that I'm on the wrong track.

Moving to the country has been incredibly good for my work, for my sense of perspective.

My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff that didn't belong in my work.

I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.

The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

I try to only work on the screenplays for a few hours a day when I'm in my most voluble mood, just sort of writing whatever comes into my head. It's a very freeing thing.

Especially for fostering creative, conceptual work, the best way to use money as a motivator is to take the issue of money off the table so people concentrate on the work.

I find that the more I do the more ability the Almighty gives me.

There are so many young talented actors today whose work I respect and admire - Ryan Gosling is probably primary among them. I take inspiration from so many amazing actors.

I really want to work in a movie with Quentin Tarantino. I think he makes fantastic movies. I love people that create a different reality for the actors to live in.

I just write all the time! I'm always working. I usually work on several books at once.

Some of my work is very instinctive, some of my favourite things I've ever done are just two minute sketches, nothing is better when you get it like that so quick, then other work takes months.

My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.

My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.

there's something about Paris that gives you a mental slap all the time, and you can't just sit still and do nothing. You've got to work, to keep up with the pace, the sting in the atmosphere.

Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.

The hardest part of art-making is living your life in such a way that your work gets done-over and over-and that means, among other things, finding a host of practices that are just plain useful.

In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side.

I think Lindsay Kemp really introduced me to the work of Jean Genet, and through that, I kind of kept re-educating myself about other prose writers and poets.

In a certain way, you get some new tools to work with, but I don't know if it ultimately makes the creative process any easier.

I don't like watching people work if they're making art.

My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do.