Quotes About Inspiration

You don't know you've got a hit when you write it - because music is all subjective, you know?

I don't know what any of my songs are about. I don't sit down to write about anything. They're about whatever you want. I don't pick subjects. I just start.

I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.

I film normal-life subjects in natural settings that some people would consider uncinematic. But what I want to show is nature itself, as the truth of life.

I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.

I look for subjects who have stories to tell - who are looking to tell something.

Film-makers are greedy people - we want good stories and good subjects.

It's not a very popular subject amongst my audience, who are by nature more internationalist, but I don't choose what to write about, I don't choose my subjects, they kind of choose me.

Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.

I write plays about big, intense subjects.

A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

I don't pick subjects as much as they pick me.

You think you choose the subjects of your books. But sometimes, in ways you don't know, the books choose you.

All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.

About Grade 9 and Grade 10, I had a fantastic drama teacher, and it was one of the first subjects I actually felt that I was good at. I wasn't a mathematician. Didn't like science, any of those subjects. English and Drama were the two subjects that I loved and felt that I was good at.

I get passionate about certain subjects, and then I'll write a whole play around it.

The thing about documentary is that you don't really choose your subjects: they come and grab you out of your bed.

I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure.

To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.

In school, some of my favorite subjects... I mean, art was my favorite subject. I loved art! I used to go during lunch time to the art room and paint or draw or something.

I want to make serious work that engages with serious subjects. I'm very lucky: I get to more or less make what I want.

Certainly, I'm excited by epic subjects. It doesn't particularly frighten me.

Listening to the stories my colleagues are researching and grappling with - in terms of access to documents, psychological understanding of their subjects, artful composition and determination to extrapolate from an individual's life lessons and insights that we can all learn from - I am each time overwhelmed by joy.