Quotes About Creativity

Being essentially a creator, I never set out to shock, always thinking about creating my work and not about the benefits it could produce.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that they're able to offer, then for a fee have them produce in a minute or two a beautiful finished copy in a dust jacket that you would pay for and take home.

A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.

I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.

When I write I know that I'm going to have to produce 40 percent more than I need.

I want to write. I want to direct. I want to produce - I want to inhabit what I think it means to fully be an artist.

Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.

I feel like when I get the demos - I get a lot of demos - but when I get the right demo, I get very inspired. I produce around it, and it often goes very fast.

When you produce and direct, your movies are different to you. They're not just something you act in.

I don't know if most people know it or not, but I produce, like, 95% of my own stuff.

I like to produce my own movies.

To direct a genuinely animated film, you're really having meetings and discussing what you want with animators who then go off and produce one shot at a time that you look at and comment on.

I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

From that, I became very anxious to produce something of my own.

It is up to us to produce better-quality movies.

I no longer feel pressure to produce fiction.

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something.

My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.

Many musicians will say they don't care about the money yet they must commit themselves to appear at given times and places, and to produce what sells, whether they believe in it or not. It depends on contracts.

Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.

I'd like to direct some, act in some of them, and produce.