Quotes About Creativity

There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas.

Life, as we know it, could hardly continue if men did not soon slay the dreamer inside them

You're an artist, Mel. You can't expect to be a success at the same time.' She was warming her white hands. I was not sure that I was an artist, but it was nice to be told.

I find that I have been scribbling away for nearly an hour. Miss Gisborne keeps on saying that I am too prone to the insertion of unnecessary hyphens, and that it is a weakness. If a weakness it is, I intend to cherish it.

What we have in this great story, as I have proposed elsewhere, is not merely a report of history but an imagining of history that is analogous to what Shakespeare did with historical figures and events in his history plays.

Jazz has endured because it doesn't have a beginning or an ending. It's a moment.

Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.

The artist and the multitude are natural enemies. They always will be, both ways. The artist is an enemy of the multitude, and the multitude is the enemy of the artist. And when the disguise comes off and they're both standing facing one another, they're just there at odds end.

The minute you have more than one voice, you have more possibilities opening up. You have all the molecules in all of those bodies and their make up interacting.

I insist that they do what they became actors to do. I want them to create something and not just hit marks and say words. So they all love that because they're playing. It's called playacting. Their contributions are not only welcomed, but are accepted and used.

People have asked me throughout the years which directors have influenced me. I don't know their names, because I was mostly influenced when I'd see a film and think, "Man, I want to be sure to never do anything like that." So I never learned their names. It wasn't a matter of copying or emulating somebody I admired. It was getting rid of a lot of stuff.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

Forgive plagiarism, copy one person's thoughts, you are a plagiarist.... if it is by more than one, it's a council! (may have "borrowed this, too!")

But in the real, messy world of creativity, giving away the thing you don't really understand for the thing that you do is an inevitable tradeoff.

Innovation is an unruly thing. There will be some ideas that don't get caught in your cup. But that's not what the game is about. The game is what you catch, not what you spill.

to make it climb, make it rhyme. Within

Anything too stupid to be spoken," he asserted, "is sung.

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. —WALTER LIPPMANN I

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

I say nothing against friendship, for I have tasted the sweets of it, and I know nothing of love, having never myself experienced a touch of it, but I find that in the making of poetry love is the most useful of all the themes that a poet may play upon.

England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball

The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.