Quotes About Creativity

I completely love directing.

When I'm acting, I'm a woman but when I am directing, I am an animal because I am very demanding.

When I see my movies on the editing table, I do think I could have done them a certain way. The satisfaction is never there even when I'm directing a film. You need to have the feeling that you could have done this better.

Coming out of 'Shrill,' depending on who's directing, they'll let you ad lib sometimes, you can pitch ideas if you have them.

I fell out of love with acting and in love with directing.

Whether it's making music or directing a video, whatever we do we do it quickly.

And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.

My eccentricity became direction.

I have not thought of pairing with somebody for music direction and will continue composing music by myself.

Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.

Acting and making music are quite complementary. Acting relies on someone else's writing and direction; writing music or lyrics doesn't. But they are both creative and personal in completely different ways.

I'm not confused about what's happening in fashion, because I follow my own direction and go.

The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going.

My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved making music, but I didn't have a clear path. I also lacked in confidence.

My work is not directly about the social or political.

I would do a sort of violence to myself if I didn't express myself in the directly creative ways of writing, both words and music.

Of course we all know when music's too much in the head, and we define our greatest players by the way they are able to communicate directly from their emotional selves.

I think my music is a way of communicating very directly with people and with people's emotions. I try to make music that doesn't need layers of complexity or obfuscation to speak to people.

There is no way I'll ever write an album for Avril Lavigne or Christina Aguilera. I just couldn't do it. There is no way I could ever do it because my musical process is about being directly involved with whatever I'm going through in life.

The last thing on earth I wanted to do was make a movie that plays directly to a sort-of frat boy audience, you know?

I never wanted to be a director.

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

I like working as a director most.

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.