Quotes About Creativity

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

There are so many things you can do with a culinary degree.

Jazz musicians have always tended to have cult followings, which is pretty wonderful.

Film is a collaborative art form. If you're not being collaborative, you probably shouldn't be working in film. You don't do it on your own. People who understand that, cultivate that, get the best results.

I had a normal childhood where I was able to cultivate my own creativity, and I don't think I would have been ready for this crazy business at 8 years old.

Don't wait for inspiration. Learn to cultivate it.

Fiction needs writers and readers, and writers should cultivate both.

I want to cultivate my own sound in my own atmosphere, where the clock is not running.

Cultural activity is what makes us human.

I think the blues is the best literature that we as blacks have created since we've been here. I call it our 'sacred book.' What I've attempted to do is to mine that field, to mine those cultural ideas and attitudes and give them to my characters.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

I am at home in many cultures. I live actively in three continents and I've done that for most of my life, so I just make films as I see the world, and that happens to speak to people. I do things that I want to do.

Without freedom and without humor, our cultures can't have a healthy evolution.

We like to learn about cultures when we make movies.

I'll never be, like, sippy cup country, or write about everything I do around the house.

I loved make-believe. I was the child in the cupboard playing with my Barbies.

No, come to think of it, I don't think the Cure will end, but I can make up an ending if you want me to.

I listen to everything from The Cure and The Clash to Prince and George Clinton.

You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.

I've always looked upon research as an opportunity to satisfy my curiosity. But the other side of the coin is one must not be so caught up in it that one never gets the book written.

Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.

When I was a kid, I was really curious about acting. And I was interested in movement and dance. I wasn't good at either of those things - I didn't work at those things.

Like many writers, I'm usually more interested in reading about authors than their actual works. We're more curious to know how they were written than what they are like to read.