Quotes About Inspiration

At the end of the day, I'm a fan of great stories and great songs.

At the end of the day, I'm an artist. I may make work and decide to do something political, but it will come out of an artist's position. It won't come out of society telling me I have to. If I do, it's because I choose, as an artist, to do it.

I feel like, at the end of the day, I always would try to make music that I wanted to listen to: stuff that I liked and wanted to hear.

It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'

I think I try to look at all my films and break them down because, at the end of the day, it's about creating characters that you like.

You can do all of the world-building you want; at the end of the day, what's important is the heart and the drive of the story and the heart and the drive of the characters.

I think that's the key to any artistic endeavor: You want it to feel fresh and not have people look at it like it's re-creation of something else unless it's done in a really strong way.

I just - I love my job. I love doing it. It's a passionate endeavor. And sometimes you can get close to something that you believe is the truth. The truth of something. Not all the time, but sometimes.

Good films will happen only if there are people to produce good films and there are people to encourage the endeavour.

I may not have written the stories that I've written if I hadn't ended up in Niverville. I don't know; I don't know. How can you know?

Listen, if there's anything we need more of in this world, it's something that has a better ending or is more positive.

I'm always changing my work, as there are endless ways to think about food.

My wishlist of directors, who I want to work with is endless. I want to work with Vishal Bhardwaj, Dibakar Banerjee, Karan Johar and many more.

As far as comedy goes, I'm endlessly inspired by Jo Firestone.

I hope that my life ends up being my greatest work of art, not just my music.

Some friends of mine had parents who made school a treat, a gift - not something to be endured.

I love to engage in creativity everyday.

The basic challenge of any book is you know you're going to be working on it for three or four years or more. So you want to have a subject that will keep you engaged.

My first engagement with any art was music.

I think artists are driven by the engine of their own talent, but it's a question of what use they put it to.

When I became an astronaut, I was an engineer.

My father, an engineer, was the gentlest man I knew.

When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.

When I was doing engineering, one day I thought that I want to be an actor, and apart from acting, I want to produce also.