Quotes About Creativity

I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.

On Ain't No Telling I came up with the bass solo.

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.

I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Rage is a really fun place to dance from - expressions of anger sublimated into something beautiful are invigorating, especially if you feel like you're telling the truth.

If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past things that are placed there to keep you from telling the truth. The more you see things as clearly and coldly as you can, the more value you're going to have.

I've always been an artist who's about being real and about telling the truth and making music with integrity and talking about something.

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

You can be very honest without telling the truth, at least in art.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

I don't like the idea that the first preparation when you start to design your building has to put your label. I think this is not fair. It's not fair to the building or to the people, to the client, because every building tells a different story.

Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about.

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

I think you'll always be able to do what your ear tells you.

I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.

I enjoy clothes. My mother tells me how, even as a kid, I used to choose my own clothes. I have a feel for it, and I do the costume coordination for my photo shoots as well. Many a time, even my characters wear the clothes I choose.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.

It's important that the way you dress tells a story and reveals something about you and your philosophy.

When you write something, at first you might feel very defensive and protective of every single thing, but after a while, you just see what works and what doesn't. Sometimes you do test screenings, and an audience tells you that, or sometimes you eventually just go, 'Let's cut the joke out.'