Quotes About Creativity

Lars von Trier, Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog: They all write, which is much better because it's their baby, and they know what they want.

I mean, if you are director like Lars Von Trier who is able to get actors on a table like Lauren Bacall, Ben Gazzara, James Caan, Nicole Kidman, Chloe Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgard, Udo Kier, all in the self-service situation in the same room, the same trailer, no money, then you must have something that everybody accepts.

Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place. It's like voodoo; we don't want things that are soaked in blood, sweat, and tears. I adore life, and I'm very easygoing - and it shows in my work.

The Knife can't stop cloaking brilliant pop songs in voodoo jam blankets.

Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina Franco and Angela Shaw and Cornelius Eady and Kevin Young, remind me daily that unless the words sing and dance, what's the use of putting them down on paper.

When I was little, I was a voracious reader, and that really led me to acting as well. I loved being transported into someone else's life, and that's what reading provided me. I also really love to entertain people.

The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.

There's several ways of saying what's on your mind. And in states and counties where it ain't too healthy to talk too loud, speak your mind, or even vote like you want to, folks have found other ways of getting the word around. One of the mainest ways is by singing.

My artwork is in order to seduce people into thinking.

The Lord, over the years, grew a seed in my heart to make faith-based films.

I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.

I love seeing cosplayers, not just of Korra, but anybody.

I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.

I'm not seeking for answers; I just want to tell stories and state my opinion.

I want to get out as much art as I can while I'm here, and I seem to get better the more that I do it.

For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn't.

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

I wanted to write in film or something like that. I thought acting was an embarrassing thing to say you wanted to do, especially when you're young. It seemed really uncool.

I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it.

A lot of people who work with Dre, you're lucky if anything sees the light of day.

Sometimes you see things in a script, and it doesn't necessarily mean the director sees the same things. And if you think you're going to be making a different film, then that's not gonna work.

I very seldom, very seldom, even know what my characters look like.

I very seldom read back into what I've written.