Quotes About Creativity

If acting with other people is in your plans, then you need to learn how to work with other people to build a comedic premise.

There is a premium on innovation and commercializing new ideas.

A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and I don't believe in it. You do yourself and everyone else a big disservice when you start thinking about it as 'Christian art.' That's why most Christian art is bad. They don't put a premium on the 'art.'

I knew a bit about the capabilities of HTML5 and have always had a preoccupation with technology. I wanted to delve deeper, to see what else it could do. The technology becomes the palette that you make the artwork with, your palette and your paint.

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

I felt sidelined by the industry, by the preoccupation with finding something newer, younger.

I do see a lot of young artists who write records or sacrifice records, because there are a lot of older artists who are preoccupied; they don't have as much time as they used to to be in the studio.

It's hard to prep a movie in five days and shoot it in five days and cut it in barely any time. You don't get quite enough time to make the thing, let alone tell the story.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

You can eat interestingly without having to spend a lot of money, with a little bit of preparation.

Music is a very big part of my preparation as an actor.

The thing is, even though you think a lot about your movie, and there's a lot of preparation behind it, the final end result completely goes beyond it. It's not something you're aware of.

To be the name on somebody's shirt that they've made themselves in preparation for one of your shows - it doesn't get much cooler than that.

I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.

Boxing is a lot of preparation and then improvising, so there are parallels to being an actor.

I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.

I think filmmaking is largely about preparation and taste and luck. If you have all of those three things, I think you will find you can work somehow.

It's the preparation that's my favourite part of the process.

Gosh, my own podcast, Las Culturistas,' is so unstructured and loose. There's no preparation that goes into it. It's just about plugging in and playing.

A camera must be part of me - an extra limb capable of freezing a situation without complicated preparation.

It's more fun in a way to do ensemble scenes, where you know your background, you know the scene, but you can't prepare because someone else is going to say something that is going to lead you off.

With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You just have a take it one step at a time and know that it's all right to keep going - you can always fix it.

When it comes to performance, I don't like to prepare at all if I don't have to.

I like to prepare each tour in a different way.