Quotes About Creativity

I have played many cop roles in my career, and my effort is to make each role different.

'Cop Car' was made with all of my friends. I wrote it with my best friend.

I think I have made too many cop films.

Writing for me is definitely a form of ventilation - a way for me to cope and deal with emotions. I think it is for any writer.

I love doing 'Cope.' It allows me to do all three things I love: singing, dancing, and best of all, acting!

I don't care for brands. I'm more of a boutique shopper because the things I will find there are unique, and there won't be any copies.

I score everything by hand on manuscript paper and then make copies.

Every time I hear about a new show, and I see a show that is being created that is nothing like I've ever thought about, I just get so excited about that expansion. Because I started working when 'L.A. Law' was on. It was lawyers and cops.

I look at Jagger and the like and if I see a good attitude I'll admire it but I wouldn't copy their style.

You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.

If you copy then it is not self-expression.

All my movies are copies of Hollywood, some of them pretty trashy copies. All filmmakers copy from Hollywood.

At the end of the day, you can't do a copy of somebody.

You have to try and make the role your own and not copy anyone else.

If you want to copy somebody, you're going to be second at best, and always a step behind.

We live through life, but we live through art, too. And in art, as in life, nothing is generalized. No one thing is a copy of the next. Everything is individual.

I can understand when people copy people of the past and make the future their own.

I can't copy nature.

I had my own mind made up in that I was going to do my own thing. I wasn't going to copy from this guy or that guy.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.

I don't try to make the guitar sound like the harpsichord or lute. That makes you end up being like a bad copy.

People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.

I'm a big fan of Nora Ephron, who believed everything is copy, and I agree.