Quotes About Inspiration

If it's good art, it's good.

I like doing movies that have good messages and have good moral backgrounds to them and things like that - and send out positive messages.

I always looked up to so many people before me and was lucky to become such good friends with them. I learned so much hanging out with those cats.

I didn't know music could make me feel good, I guess.

There's nothing more important than a good story.

When you compete with good people, it makes everybody better.

We sit and listen and are enthralled anew, for good stories, it seems, never lose their magic.

When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.

I learned how to make a documentary by having a good team around me. My editors (and co-writers)Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Frédéric Tcheng were very helpful.

I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?

You don't need to be the good guy to get a good message out.

Aligning my music with something that feels morally and politically passionate to me feels good.

Young people don't even consider that it's a good idea to be out on the fringe, which is where good ideas come from.

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.

I think one of the good things about writing novels is that you always start from scratch.

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.

If I can be a good person and help a few non-believers or even help people that are believers but need a little help along the way, I think that's a job that I take very seriously.

Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.

I invented 'It's a good thing' before you were even born.

It's good fun to create an unpredictable character. When he comes into the room, I don't know what he's going to do - I have to find my way.

With good art, that's what happens - it comes directly out from inside of you almost instinctively.

Good ideas are free - or at least they should be.