Quotes About Creativity

Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose.

For me, if Shakespeare was around today, he'd be writing screenplays - a big Hollywood movie.

One of the problems with Shakespeare is that you can never give him a ring.

I think Shakespeare, at his heart, was just the way all of us are that make movies: He wanted to entertain people.

My earliest influence was Shakespeare - I read Shakespeare incessantly as a kid.

Shakespeare has been adapted by Akira Kurosawa. 'Dangerous Liaisons' has been adapted into a Chinese movie. 'Blood Simple', the Coen brothers movie, was adapted by Zhang Yimou.

Anyone can play anyone in Shakespeare. I don't think there are limits.

Artists are overcompensating with this aggressive, energetic, hyperstimulating music - it's like someone shaking you. But it can't move people on an emotional level.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

It's a shame that when you've actually lived some life and have something to write about, they're saying you're too old to come out and play it.

For me, 'Shanghai' is beyond language. For me, it's good cinema. The language is incidental.

I liked women as a shape to dress.

Our literature is in great shape.

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.

You can do a lot to shape the feeling of a song by the way you record it.

I don't know what would have happened to me as a writer if I had gone to England and shaped my life out of England. Of course, I will never know, but I think I prefer what did happen.

Those American '90s bands shaped us.

Anybody who digs your art, you what to share it with.

The life I live due to my work is difficult to share.

You see that it is not at all like Rodin... I share these only with you, don't show them.

I want to show how much fun you can have drawing... parents and children can draw together as a wonderful shared activity.

I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.

Although music comes from a very personal place, talent is meant to be shared.

I think maybe one day I'll go back to music. I don't know. I don't know if sometimes you lose a passion or you don't lose it, it becomes more personal and less about sharing it with everyone.