Quotes About Creativity

The great directors managed to dissolve and disappear into the work. They make other people look good.

I always need to get away from whatever it is I've just finished, to feel a distance from it.

If you are writing something, you automatically create a certain distance. It can be very little. Even within the same city you imaginatively have a certain distance from your subject, and at the same time, you have to have a connection.

What I need in order to stay creative and centered is a certain amount of distance from the maddening crowd. You cease to be your best self if you're running too fast.

I need a distance to my characters when I write.

I've seen a lot of people come out of Carol City, but I had this distinct vision for Carol City, just me coming out of there, because my music is so different from anybody else who came out of there.

I feel like I have a distinct voice.

But, I think that as long as you have a distinct voice and personality, you can kind of dress how you want.

For me, if its television, if it's theater, if it's film, and it's good, I don't make much of distinction between the 3. I think there's only so many great stories out there. If you get the chance to be a part of one, it doesn't matter what it is.

Art is anything people do with distinction.

Some musicians feel they have to provide what their audiences expect. They lose the distinction between an artist and an entertainer. I am not an entertainer.

People want to make a distinction between what's commercial and what's art.

My music is not only different but distinctive.

I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.

I personally don't distinguish between artistic and commercial films.

Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.

If I wanted to make big, bombastic, distorted, echo-y, trippy music, the atmospheric stuff, a studio is nice. But it's nice to know that it's not necessary.

It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.

I feel I was always daydreaming, and I was always distracted.

I don't look at other people's work because I don't want to be distracted by their ideas.

I don't have any of the modern electronics at all. I know the Internet would be a distraction. I would see things that interested me and never get back to writing.

I never listen to music when I write. It's too much of a distraction.

Reading good books is one distraction that will help you become a better writer. And writing - that's the thing - writing is what will really make you a better writer. Write bad stories until you begin to write so-so stories, which might, if you keep at it, turn to writing good stories.

I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.