Quotes About Creativity

I've been blogging since the 80s. Okay maybe not that long. But starting around 2004, I launched and abandoned many blogs, and would continue to do so over the next decade.

When I came to America, there was a lot of decadence in New York in the early '70s because the city was bankrupt and you could do whatever you want!

Adobe and Apple have collaborated a lot over the decades. There's a lot more for us to do as well.

The really good stuff- the 'Hamiltons' - comes out after decades of writing and being committed.

I don't think we should be deceived that art is such a moral thing.

The arts bridge cultures; they're good for the economy, and they're good for fostering empathy and decency.

Through most of my career, I've made a decent living making movies no one wants to see.

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

My candle-making business gives me decent money.

As long as I can make the films I want to make in decent conditions, I am happy.

My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.

I love burlesque. I'm a decent aerialist. I think I set myself apart visually.

I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s.

I always feel very afraid as I work on books. It's just so hard to write a decent book!

The library companies have made it so that music is so cheap to license. They do sound-alikes of every band, and it makes it harder for the actual bands to get any decent paychecks for licensing.

I wish I was really talented in music because then I would be doing it. I felt that I could write a decent song, but it was a big struggle.

You can't apply the term 'lucrative' to dancing, but it does earn me a decent living.

To write anything decent, it's hard. Anything you want to be good is hard.

Unless I think I can manage to make something decent, I won't.

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.

I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.

I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer.

You know how it is, somebody will see your work and like it and remember it, then decide to make it a role in their film.