Quotes About Creativity

'You Can Count On Me' took 20 days to shoot, and we had 50 days to shoot 'Margaret.'

The artist knows how to sing, not how to count.

I don't think I've ever spent more than an hour on any one song, but that doesn't count the thinking that goes on beforehand.

I think it's counterproductive for actors to come to the set with well-thumbed copies of the book their film is adapted from.

A friend of mine kind of revealed to me that idea that there has been countless Supermen and Batman. But I'm the first person to play Black Lightning. It's exciting to originate a character.

Football is marvellous and there are countless ways to play and to win.

My wife grew up loving country music, so I always run songs by her whether I wrote it or if somebody pitched it to me.

Every time I tried writing my own songs, they would come out very country. I couldn't fight it, and the more I listened to country music, the more I loved it, and it just became very natural.

I listen to everything. I sing country music, but I listen to different stuff.

Country music, like rock or blues, can move over into a lot of different areas.

Back when I first started in country music, you did it because you loved it, because it definitely wasn't where the big money was.

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

But I think it's hard for me to only put out one record a year. Because I get too antsy. But it's good I'm learning to do that, because each record counts. And you should make it count.

There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction.

Math was always hard for me, but my dad would come up with ways of making it fun. I remember playing 'Number Munchers' on our old Mac... That counts as math class, right?

I want to shake things up like 'Bloom County' did.

Im a maximalist, so Im probably not very elegant. My art is not a coup de grce. Its a war of attrition.

I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it.

I've worked with Robert Altman a couple of times too.

You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.

It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.

The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.

I tend to choose collaborators who are more courageous than I am. I think it's good for me.

If you make something from your heart, of course you want it to connect with the people.