Quotes About Inspiration

The biggest challenge for me in every film is believing that what I have to say is important enough to have lots of people collaborate to make a whole movie. I work on this belief every day.

It's always a great day going to work with Ginnifer Goodwin; she's a fantastic actress and I learn so much from her.

My daily surroundings feed my work, whether it's something I'm working on right now or it's something down the road.

It's human nature to work on ourselves, to get better in mind, body, and spirit, so there's nothing wrong with trying to live life to your fullest potential.

Every time you work on a project, it's a little vacation from the project you're working on the other 23 hours. That's the thing - it replenishes you to do something else.

I wrote Sophies World in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when Im working on a book.

I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.

A writer's life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.

If you want to do creative work, there are tremendous sacrifices involved, and tremendous financial sacrifices too. It requires dedication and solitude.

I can honestly tell you that without God I would not be who I am today. He has done such an amazing work in my life and I want everyone to have the same freedom.

When you get a chance to work with Aaron Sorkin, you don't say no. You drop everything you're doing.

John Hurt was incredible to work with.

I would like to work with Jack Nicholson, before it's too late.

That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.

When we do what we really love, money will come, the door will open. We feel useful and work as a game that

Your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you're doing is just plain junk.

Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.

When we let God be God and work through us, we experience both a sense of serenity and excitement.

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

The only thing that gets me through any type of pain, emotional or physical, is to make it worthwhile by putting it into my work.

School visits are something I do fairly often: I always say to the students that somebody has got to end up with the interesting careers, so why not them?

My philosophy is always, "Let's get the spirit of the character." If people believe in it and the spirit of it, then it will work.

Like most photographers, I try to capture a moment in my work.

If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.