Quotes About Creativity

I went back and reread the Dinosaur chapter in 'Our Band Could Be Your Life,' and it was so depressing.

Coming back to Dinosaur Jr. and actually writing songs for the band was really intense for me.

I grew up playing with dinosaurs instead of Barbie dolls.

People tell you not to work with children and animals, and I chose to work with a 7-year-old and several dinosaurs!

If I can build a coalition of people who are interested in what I have to say and what I'm thinking, I hope they'll come with me if I want to go tell a story that doesn't have dinosaurs in it - which I plan to do.

I was never really interested in fashion before I started to work with Dior. I didn't see fashion as an art form.

In the early '50s, it was still the time of Christian Dior's New Look. Every dress was big and important, and I thought I must do something completely different. Women needed something for daytime that was wearable.

Growing up, I used to literally run home from school to watch the Dior and Galliano shows online.

I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into.

I'm trying not to go through that midlife dip that artists tend to have.

That's the whole thing about fashion: it's fantasy. To dip into that at 18 and 19 was amazing.

You cant be an artist without going to art school. Its impossible. Art schools like being plunged into a sheep dip that inoculates you against cliches. It gives you a sensibility you need to get into the art world.

When you make shorts, people don't get paid. It's mostly about being diplomatic that you're going to do a masterpiece of short cinema.

Without imagination and without love, life can be pretty bleak. I think having both will get you through the most dire of situations.

My characters are based on people I know, but not in a direct way.

A bonus: You don't have to diet to direct.

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories.

It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I give it to someone else and it doesn't turn out as it could have done, I'd feel as if I'd orphaned my baby.

I like to direct for the big screen.

I'm currently trying to direct my own material.

I want to write and direct and kind of do my own thing.

I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.

It's kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that's the only way I know how to direct.