Quotes About Creativity

You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible.

I've always felt that I wanted to make a Marvel film... I just want to make sure I'm not making an episode.

I think if Marvel called me to do anything - if they called me to film the phone book - I would do it.

I think Marvel is really good at managing, and the thing I love about working with them is that you never feel hindered.

I really want to produce a record for Mary J. Blige.

People thought I wrote in a very 'masculine' way.

I suppose what's so amazing about working at the National Theatre is that, because it's a subsidized theatre, you're not trying to create a product that's going to have a mass market in order to make the money back.

Whatever the download thing has done to the game, you as an artist can get yourself out there to the masses, off your own back.

TV is art. It's mass art. It's accessible to the masses.

What keeps an artiste going is the adulation of the masses.

It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.

I never had a massive desire to buy clothes. I liked to customise the clothes I already had or was given when I was younger. If I didn't like them that much, I made them how I wanted them to be.

I grew up listening to a lot of Massive Attack and Portishead.

Vince Vaughn is a master improviser.

I'm not a master of films, I'm rather a slave.

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

I hope to record the perfect album, my masterpiece, before I die.

I think 'War Eternal' - if I'm allowed to say it - for me, it's a masterpiece.

I want to own my masters. That's the main thing--owning all my music.

Looking back on it now, I felt that I was blessed much like the masters, I guess - the guys who wrote the concertos.

Music is first for me. How the music makes me feel, it's like energy. It has to match my life. What's happening around me or to me. That's where it comes from.

Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record.

As an actor, you always dream of having material that showcases what you can do.

It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.