Quotes About Creativity

I'm an improvisational actor. I like to do my own thing. But once in a while, I think you should have the self-restraint to let someone else dictate the story.

'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.

Government shouldn't try to dictate what art looks like or what it portrays. Last thing we want is government screwing it up, which is what they would do.

I just let the emotion dictate what the arrangement is.

I've always liked the No.10 position. You can get on the ball a lot more and attempt to dictate the play a lot more.

I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.

When you've got hardly any equipment, very little money and no access to any information, your sound is very much dictated by you, your setup and what you're listening to. Nothing more.

With art and the work you do, it has to be constantly dictated by what you're feeling and where you want to go with it.

We can't be dictated to by radio. Radio needs to play what we send them.

It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.

Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.

I think people think of auteurs as being a dictator shouting over everyone about his vision. That's not the way I think of auteurs or the way I work.

The Internet is empowering everybody. It's empowering Democrats. It's empowering dictators. It's empowering criminals. It's empowering people who are doing really wonderful and creative things.

There are some showrunners who run their room like dictators, from what I hear.

On 'Sound of My Voice,' I was the first and last word, which is kind of a dictatorship. I like collectives, though.

What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.

I don't want to be a didactic voice. I like to ask more questions than I answer, just to get people thinking and to make it safe to access art.

I don't think comedy will ever die.

I want to make music until I die.

Me and my comedy writer friends talk a lot about how we love 'Die Hard,' but we'll never be able to write 'Die Hard.'

If I can't write it would be as if I died.

I think that a society lives or dies according to its respect for - for its art.