Quotes About Creativity

To me, even what the glossies would consider a fashion disaster are still self expression.

I don't want to write because I have to; I want to write because I want to. Sometimes, when writers write because they have to, the results are disastrous.

Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

I can say that I've become a David Fincher disciple. I have been completely turned.

Craft and art and discipline in what you do will make you happy.

Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an art and a craft.

I haven't got a writer's discipline.

Many Chinese companies are run like military camps with military discipline. We do not run a company that way. It does not help the creative process.

People, certainly in the U.K., look down on screenwriting as an art form, but I love the discipline of it. Next to the bagginess of novel writing, it almost feels like a martial art.

I don't like post-modernism. It's cynical, and takes no discipline - you just copy. It doesn't allow a film to be open to reality.

I would love to write a script, for sure. I write poetry and songs. But writing a script needs a lot of time and discipline.

Although I was writing songs when I was younger, I didn't feel I had much of a clue as to what I was doing or how I was doing it. There are a few songs from my past where I thought, 'Well, that's pretty decent,' but I didn't have a discipline. I suppose I'm kind of a late bloomer.

I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.

I'm not a disciplined writer.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

I think I'm less disciplined than a lot of other people, I'm afraid, but on the other hand, I've written a lot of books.

To be free on stage, you need to have been disciplined.

A lot of comedy films, there's the opinion, 'Well, if it's funny, put it in.' But I think you have to be more disciplined than that.

I'm pretty disciplined. But your brain needs boredom. It needs routine.

When I started writing songs at 18, I wrote about 100 that were crap. One was called 'Dog In A Disco.'

To me, discomfort is a gift in the films that I'm making.

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.

While I was a student at The Cooper Union, they discouraged too much of a focus on any one medium, and it helped me try new and different things.

Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn't have full charge of making the film, and sometimes there'd be battles of egos.