Quotes About Creativity

I'm not the kind of director who imposes his processes on everybody else.

I believe that the ability to innovate and to be creative are teachable processes. There are ways by which people can systematically innovate or systematically become creative.

Two directors always come with two thought processes.

When you look back over 100 years when stop-motion was really at the dawn of cinema, a lot of the ways it developed was you had stage magicians who were looking to bring their illusions to life, and one of the ways they did that, at the time, was through cinema and stop-motion. They developed these processes.

You can't allow your creative sessions to be dominated by miniscule editing processes.

My only way of processing anything for me is by writing.

Writing, for me, is an extension of thinking - it's my way of processing, and only when I've gotten something down on the page have I thought through it fully.

Technology for technology's sake is not innovation. What we in the industry have to be concerned about is what products do, as opposed to what the processing power is.

Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

For me, writing is just processing.

The downside of word processing - it's quite possible to never end a work-in-progress.

Music became my way of processing things and a way to gain confidence.

I have read that, when you are writing or working on something creative, and your attention wanders, your brain is processing and working on what you have just done. But I find it hard to believe that my brain is really taking five hours to fully process the seven minutes I have managed to spend focused on one thing.

Before I made 'Sweetback,' I had a three-picture deal with Columbia and enough juice, if I was real clever with it, to proclaim that I wanted to do an independent film.

For me genius is '1% inspiration and 99% procrastination.'

I see procrastination and research as part of my artistic process.

I design music; I don't produce it.

I write songs, I play instruments, and I produce music that comes out for the world.

You want your fans to like what you do, because it's coming from your heart and soul. You write it, you produce this thing. It's like your baby.

For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.

Bachata is expensive to produce because of all of the instruments.

All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.

Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.

A friend, Sean Cunningham, who went on to do 'Friday the 13th,' was given a small budget to produce a scary movie, and he told me to write something. I'd never seen a horror film in my life; I'd fallen in love with Fellini.