Quotes About Inspiration

The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern.

My greatest reward is that I have been able to build this wonderful organization.

I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.

In business, what distinguishes leaders from laggards and greatness from mediocrity is the ability to uniquely imagine what could be.

I never wanted to be a businessman, I just wanted to change the world

You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around.

Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.

I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was really inspiring for me at this stage in my career.

But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

Acting for me is not a business, it's about trying to make pieces of art that I believe that I feel proud of. And it's the journey of that.

But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.

Fear and creativity don't mix well.

Creativity comes from constraint.

I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business--the most talented espionage novelist of our generation.

I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them.

Running a business is making a difference in people's lives

Things that annoy me end up fuelling my ideas.

I need as much of the business of making a film to be in my own workspace. It really ought to be a bit more like doing a novel, alone, at first. I'm feeling my way.

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

Have a vision. Be demanding.

The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.

I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you can do it. It's good for business.