Quotes About Creativity

I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.

Some people look at movies and think, 'Oh my gosh, that's so amazing.' But to me, I look at a politician or a scientist and think, 'They're creating the content of humanity.'

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.

I'm a comedian. You have to understand that my brain doesn't work like a politician's brain.

I'm a filmmaker. I'm not a politician.

I'm a musician... not a politician.

I want to write songs, and I would like to play and sing them. I'm not a politician; I'm not a comedian. I hate coming up with bits to do between songs.

I get irritated with the world. I get irritated with politicians. I get very irritated with governments and with corporations, but in terms of imagination - my imagination is always fertile. I'm either thinking of my own things or constantly engaged by the things that other people do.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.

Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.

There is a lot of musical pollution in the film industry.

I got the feeling: It's time to do a Marco Polo story. I felt like everything was lining up right because long-form television series were becoming to me like the new great American novel.

I'm always asking, 'How do you give a guy a new reason to buy a polo?'

With 'Pink Polo,' I wanted something I could listen to when I was doing different activities during the summer and also bring a message in it.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

That's another pompous expression that is out of fashion, to say that poetry is a gift. It sounds pompous because you say, 'Who gave you the gift, and what is this gift?' And the gift is where I am; the gift is what I have come out of, the people around me who, I think, are beautiful people.

It was like putting your foot into a pond and knowing that I wanted to dive into this. It wasn't even just acting. It was this medium, film. I had to explore it.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

To make independent films, you can't think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it.

If I don't feel it when I'm sitting there, if it doesn't give me the feeling I got when I heard 'Pony' or 'So Anxious' or 'In Those Jeans,' I scrap it.

I was a little one-trick pony. I do what I've always done. That's really where my best stuff comes from. I don't know how it happens. It just happens.