Quotes About Creativity

Making 'Caddyshack' was like an exercise in controlled chaos.

I create a world where kids rule. If you think about it, kids are always being told what to do, what to say, when to do it - they're very controlled... I give them an escape, where the kids are in charge.

I don't control my writing - it controls me.

I never control a film. The film controls me.

I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial.

I have never written out of a desire to be controversial.

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation.

The greatest artists were in a situation where they had to pay their bills. That's a very convenient way to get very creative very fast.

The worst art is when it's really convenient and comfy.

I think we've established a convention on the show that allows us to do pretty much anything we want to.

As a black man working in the business, it's a challenge sometimes to get some of these things and these stories told when they don't quite fit in a box or convention of what people expect of you or what you should be telling.

I think I'm a difficult conventional writer.

It's a harder time to make original, less conventional movies. But God, we need them!

The conventional idea of beauty is so boring.

I want to do more new-age content, look beyond conventional cinema.

I wanted to go so I could learn the rules and conventions in order to break them later on.

There are artists who make their living now going to conventions... because now you can.

I never got into 'MacGyver,' but 'All the President's Men' and 'The Conversation' were big for me.

When I was 17, I met many artists, and it started to become this conversation with artists out of which all of my exhibitions grew.

I like the idea of multidisciplinary conversations, so in that spirit, I try and make a contribution from the art world into the music world.

Overhearing people's conversations about art - that's always entertaining.

I can only get to a certain point as I write and then I have individual conversations with everyone that I cast. I always do a rewrite based on the conversations.

My biggest source of inspiration is listening to people's conversations. I'm a big eavesdropper.