Quotes About Creativity

I didn't know how to necessarily make good robots and I was scared of failing to make good robots, so I thought I might as well make bad robots to kind of alleviate the pressure of that.

In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through - if it is labored, it fails.

Anyone can write a detective story about a detective who fails, for Pete's sake. That's pretty unambitious.

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.

How many remakes are really successful? From 100, 98 are failures. That's because those films are remade without taking into consideration the sensibilities of the audience. I don't do that.

When you start your creative journey after failures, I think you already work to perform and want to give your best. I was blessed to have the right kind of people around me.

I really think everything is fair game.

To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to other people's songs that I heard on the radio and take whatever song and make it about fairies and angels - whatever little girls sing about.

If I'm excited about it, I'm pretty sure an audience is going to enjoy it. If I'm bored with an idea, you can bet they're going to be asleep. So I try to only do things that I'm fairly excited about.

I love making cheap films. I really do. What I've found is that I work better when it's both a fairly low budget and a short schedule. It focuses the mind, and it's a better atmosphere.

I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in.

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.

An actor's life is fairly lonely.

The general direction seems to be becoming fairly clear to me, but every new piece is a small adventure.

I like to write in fairly everyday language - I've always tried to write lyrics that, if people would speak the words, it wouldn't sound like a song.

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

If you can make it as a children's party fairy, you can make it anywhere.

People want to see a magical fairytale story, but the reality is that I spent a lot of time making music alone in my bedroom.

When I was younger, my goal in life was to work in special FX makeup. Liquid latex and fake blood! That was the dream!

There's not a lot of good content to write about when you're 13 years old, so you just have to kind of fake it.

You can fake a lot of stuff, but you can't fake if the story isn't there and if the writing isn't good.

There are an awful lot of bands out there doing our old act. An awful lot of fake moustaches and underwhelming performances.