Quotes About Creativity

I was making short films and putting on plays at school. I was also in love with my teacher, so yeah - I was the kid in 'Rushmore.'

I've always written short stories.

I like short stories.

I write short stories. I write every day.

With short stories, you can always see the whole, but it's just so hard to get everything you want into that small form.

Can you write 200 words a day? 100? 50? In six months, 50 words a day is 9,000 words. That's 2-3 short stories. If you did 200 words every day, in three months that's 36,000 words. That's half a short novel.

To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.

I wrote poetry and short stories. I would send them to magazines; they wouldn't get in. But short stories are how I found philosophy and how I'd understand the world.

Eventually, I just want to write wavy little short stories.

I didn't really start to write until I was almost 30, and I started with the short stories.

Short stories can make for really good adaptations.

I've been writing short stories since I was a little girl.

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

Mixtapes are always small scale to me - they never get taken seriously, and they're always short-lived.

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

With a lot of those 'S.N.L.' shorts, we would do them just as we wanted to do them and then beep out the bad words. Since it was late night T.V., they let us get away with a lot.

I love film and, particularly, shorts. You don't get to see them often, and they're a great little form, like a short story.

What kind of shorts I wear has nothing to do with music.

When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film.

I wanted to be a movie director. I was just obsessed with watching movies and camera shots and directors. I read autobiographies and stuff of directors.

I've storyboarded for things other people have shot. So thinking in shots and orchestrating shots is not foreign to me at all.

At one point of time, I would like to shoulder a film on myself.

Big shout out to Nas: if you want to scream my name out again and put my name in your rhyme, I think it's funny. Let's make some money from it. Just don't take it so serious, man.

Back In 1982, I started in show business with my brothers. We started a break dancing group.