Quotes About Creativity

It was almost like I gravitated toward the people who were encouraging me to be like myself and to be creative and be different.

Our culture of the Bay Area is a place where you want to be different. You want to be seen. You want to be heard.

An artiste can only be happy when he is true to his art.

I have to be creative to be happy.

As long as I'm writing stuff and people are reading it, I'll be happy.

I need to write to be happy.

I am trying to make the kind of film that I would be happy to see.

But, you know, I'd be happy just making music.

My passion is doing movies, so as long as I keep doing that I will be happy.

You can't write masterpieces in your 80s and be happy too.

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

I always say to my students, 'If you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.'

I am passionate about cinema in general. Eventually, I am making films for people to watch and enjoy, but somewhere, I have to be satisfied, too. I want to be happy after doing a film.

It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.

I think people are afraid to be original.

There's only a certain number of movies I'm going to get made, and it's important to me that they each be original somehow.

I don't try to be original; I just always want to do something that excites me.

I don't care what you're playing. You can be playing EDM music. Well, guess what? That came out in the early '80s. There's no way to be original. All you can do is put yourself into it and do the best you can.

I hope that the things that I sing about will be an inspiration for people to be original.

To make music that means something, you kind of have to drop the cool. You have to be prepared and willing to be uncool.

It's funny, man, sometimes you record something that you plan on re-doing later, but then when you listen back to it, you decide to keep it because you realize that it's gonna be real tough to beat!

From a place of truth, I think artists or actors have to be real with what they're doing.

You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writing and drawing a character.

I'm going to be the first person to do every creative idea he's ever had in his head.